Akin Tries To Explain “Legitimate Rape” Comment, Speak With KMOX’s Charlie Brennan (9:20 Central)

KMOX ^ | August 19, 2012

[Second Amendment First]

Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt Romney’s campaign after saying in an interview broadcast Sunday that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancies in “a legitimate rape” and that conception is rare in such cases.

Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview on St. Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.

“It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Akin said. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said of a rape victim’s chances of becoming pregnant.

Rep. Akin will be a guest on the Charlie Brennan show at 9:20 am Monday to speak about his comments.

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

Here we go...

You mean, "Here we go AGAIN"

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

the 5% exception

Er... you do know that five percent is about the probability of conception for unprotected sexual intercourse in general, right?

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

The old way of handling this is to promise him to be ambassador to switzerland to get him to resign.

It would be more fitting to appoint him ambassador to Dumbf**kistan.

[muskah]

If there is a resulting pregnancy from a rape then the other evidence and facts would obviously have precedence over the pregnancy. The pregnancy itself would not be a persuasive argument except to prove that a sexual act had indeed taken place(assuming a positive paternity test links the perp with the child) If the accusation of rape came after the pregnancy became known, I would have a great deal of difficulty voting for a conviction should I be on that jury. That would probably get me off a trial like that!

[Will88]

Just because someone somewhere claimed that women don’t tend to make up rape allegations, doesn’t mean that date rape isn’t a situationally useful term.

It also doesn't mean that the term "date rape" does not have a political origin, just as "undocumented immigrant" has a political origin as does "EBT" as opposed to food stamps and welfare payment. Those are only a few of the "politically useful" terms that have been created the past few decades.

[Uncle Chip]

Keep in mind that if the "Personhood" types get their way

Ahhh -- we now see where you are coming from.

[muskah]

Nobody advocates a homicide investigation after every miscarriage aka spontaneous abortion. There is not an investigation after every death. An autopsy is performed only when a death occurs under unknown or suspicious circumstances

[rbmillerjr]

1. He made a mistake.

2. When Dems make mistakes, do their supporters bale?

3. It’s a mistake, not the end of the world, apologize for the misstatement and move on.

4. We need that Senate seat, it was an easy blow out win.

5. It’s too late to put somebody else on...THEY WILL LOSE.

6. Don’t underestimate the common sense of the American people....he was WAY UP in Missouri...he can still win.

[Will88]

People do talk about marital rape or gay rape.

Not very many people. Those terms are relatively rare compared to the overused term "date rape", which was coined to lower the evidentiary standards for rape, and which resulted in some absurd rules adopted by colleges that required a request for approval at each step in the progression toward consensual sex (Antioch College in Ohio).

"Date rape" was a PC, feminist initiative and it became part of absurd rules on several college campuses.

[muskah]

Nobody advocates a homicide investigation after every miscarriage aka spontaneous abortion. There is not an investigation after every death. An autopsy is performed only when a death occurs under unknown or suspicious circumstances

[Conscience of a Conservative]

If you disagree with their calculations, please explain why.

Because their 'calculations' include items like this:

"What further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows."

Unproven assumptions --> Unreliable 'calculations.'

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

Did this study distinguish between legitimate rapes and reported rapes that were really consensual sex???

How many of the latter do you think occurred between invading militias and local women during the Rwandan genocide?

[9YearLurker]

No, what you are referring to are political euphemisms.

‘Date rape’ didn’t replace another concise term.

[9YearLurker]

I’m going to guess that you haven’t had any college-aged daughters.

Yes, academia and liberalism are rife with silly PC excesses, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not legitimate to clarify when the perpetrator of rape was someone known in a date situation.

Jeesh!

[Friendofgeorge]

My first reaction was that he must have simply meant that Abortion in rape and incest is simply wrong under any circumstance, and that rape and incest are red herrings.

That`s my belief that abortion is wrong in ALL circumstances, and the rape and incest exceptions are indeed red herrings.

Too bad he had to add that a womans body shuts down under rape etc.

Now if a Dr told him this?

[Just mythoughts]

1. He made a mistake. 2. When Dems make mistakes, do their supporters bale? 3. It’s a mistake, not the end of the world, apologize for the misstatement and move on. 4. We need that Senate seat, it was an easy blow out win. 5. It’s too late to put somebody else on...THEY WILL LOSE. 6. Don’t underestimate the common sense of the American people....he was WAY UP in Missouri...he can still win.

I am not a prophet or a seer.... But, Missourians did vote in majority for a dead man, and allowed his widow to take the seat. AND they in majority did vote for the nursing home queen Claire. The year she won the Missouri ballet was loaded to get the 'union' voters out and then of course that 'life saving' stem cell research.

As of this moment I say the seat is now a toss up because that is ALLLLL Claire and the liberals biggest Charity, the JonStewart media, will play Akin's words over and over and over and give Claire the stage to say how ignorant he is.

[Uncle Chip]

Perhaps quite a lot. Many may have already been pregnant by their husbands when the rapes subsequently occurred.

[TheWriterTX]

I concur.

The Feminazis have distorted the rape claim so that we have once again come full circle; now, when a woman makes a claim of rape (unless there is a brutal beating or a weapon involved aside from the violation) it's once again suspect.

That's one of the things I hate about the false rape claims; THEY make it harder for legitimate victims to receive justice.

[gore_sux]

“It is not “magic”. The trauma and stress of the violence and the woman’s struggle makes the act of intercourse less likely to result in fertilization.”

Does this work if she's knocked out or drugged? Or are these not considered “legitimate” rapes?

[Theo]

From the NIH website:

“The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.”

They are saying, then, that there are over 600,000 rapes committed per year.

Everywhere else I’ve seen the figure between 100,000 and 300,000.

NIH seems to be working with different figures, or is making poor calculations.