It’s not because he’s a conservative.
It’s because of his idiot words about how raped women don’t get pregnant.
You lie. He never said that. Look at what Akin *actually* said.
Come on....
Theo is right.
If you are going to quote, quote correctly.
Stop spreading lies. He never said they “don’t” get pregnant, he said “as he understands it,” it’s rare. There are articles, research and statistics that back that claim up too.
Charles Jaco, the man who interviewed Todd Akin, is a left-wing goon who has a history of manipulating interviews with political candidates.
Back in 2002, a reporter from KMOX Radio interviewed Cathy Enz, a Republican candidate running against Democrat Dick Gephardt in the MO 3rd Congressional District. All of Enz’ staff were aghast when the recorded interview was broadcast on the radio. Jaco, who worked at KMOX at the time, took the ENZ interview, played excerpts exclusively for Gephardt and then allowed him to refute her statements, without allowing Enz any opportunity for rebuttal to her opponent’s comments. The interview was incompetent, partisan journalism at its worst; a set-up designed to unfairly disparage a candidate and sway an election.
Todd Akin was also set up by Jaco, in an attempt to find some ill stated comment and distort it in order to ridicule Akin. My guess is that the video of the interview was probably being scrutinized in the McCaskill headquarters within ten minutes of completion.
I happened to be watching the Akin interview that Sunday morning and was not taken aback by his “notorious comment”. I understood Akin was meaning to say forced rape, as opposed to statutory rape.
And as a woman myself, I understand the complex female reproductive system and am aware that stress and, most certainly, trauma CAN (can, not will) cause impending ovulation to be delayed or halted. No ovulation means no pregnancy. Does that mean pregnancy will not occur in case of rape? Of course not! There are only about three days in a woman’s cycle that she is fertile. If ovulation has already occurred shortly before unprotected intercourse, no matter if it is rape or consensual sex, pregnancy is likely to occur.
Todd Akin’s gaffe was not worthy of destruction of his political career. He did not do anything illegal or immoral or malicious. He did not deliberately disparage women who were impregnated by rape. His words were sadly misconstrued by some people and deliberately distorted by political operatives in efforts to affect the November election.
By the way, Jaco’s radio show used to follow the Rush Limbaugh program on KMOX. That was until Jaco got fired, partly for his crude response to a listener who complained about the way he used the Enz interview.
MOST women don’t get pregnant EVERY time they have sex. MOST women who are raped DONT get pregnant. Find out the facts AGAIN!
He didn't say that....he said some women have a tendency for their reproductive system to reject fertilization during traumatic intercourse such as "legitimate rape" based on a study by a Doctor Wilke ...a study of course challenged by pro abortion forces since rape exclusion is a wedge they use to keep infanticide alive
Wilke's study estimates that pregnancies from rape are no more than 2%
The average woman who has non rape intercourse from ages 18-30 with a tadpole laden partner on average 3 times a week has a 25% chance to get pregnant each month
I think he could have expressed himself better no question and would have done best to simply saw that if we don't execute the rapist then why execute the baby?
but the disgusting avalanche heaped upon him by the social moderates on our side was quite telling
and remains so
conservatism is about truth and accuracy, it's not complicated but it's rarely in evidence much anymore when GOP establishment types are as hysterical as the kooks we just saw in Charlotte