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Akin Tries To Explain “Legitimate Rape” Comment, Speak With KMOX’s Charlie Brennan (9:20 Central)
KMOX ^ | August 19, 2012

Posted on 08/20/2012 7:07:41 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: akin; akin4mccaskill; akingaffes; gaffes; legitimaterape; mccaskill; mo2012; rape; talkradio; toddakin
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To: sometime lurker
Are you saying that stress will not affect a woman's reproductive system???

Please cite your studies --

61 posted on 08/20/2012 8:20:01 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Will88

That’s not the reason the term ‘date rape’ was coined, and the guy doesn’t have a legitimate point—talking about legitimacy.


62 posted on 08/20/2012 8:20:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

The GOP needs to step in here, get him out, and get someone in who can help the party.


63 posted on 08/20/2012 8:21:38 AM PDT by mrs9x
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To: muskah
That is true, but emergency medical treatment following a criminal attack that inadvertently results in the failure to implant is not an abortion in my mind.

Oh I agree with you, but believe me there are plenty of people on this board that consider a fertilized egg that has yet to implant in the uterus a "baby" and they'd make such medical treatment illegal if they could.

64 posted on 08/20/2012 8:22:25 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: backwoods-engineer

You’re right. While this politician’s words are clumsy, there is truth to what he’s said.

According to this site — http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/492/26/ — “one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant [is] ... psychic trauma.”


65 posted on 08/20/2012 8:22:40 AM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: mrs9x

“The GOP needs to step in here, get him out, and get someone in who can help the party.”

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


66 posted on 08/20/2012 8:24:37 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: 9YearLurker
The reality is that after this jerk’s comments, Steelman rather than Brunner may be the only candidate who could win against McCaskill.

Akin may have just handed the Senate back to the Dems, since I don’t see Brunner stepping aside as well.

Yep. It's the Democrat Steel Phalanx versus the Republic Cat Herd, once again.

If Akin stays in there and loses, I'll never bother voting for the GOP at the national level again. I tire of watching those bozo clowns cough up the ball on the one yard line time after time after time after time after time after time..., and then asking me to believe it's "just another unfortunate turn of luck".

Sarah Palin called it, back in the primary. So did Claire McCaskill...

67 posted on 08/20/2012 8:25:33 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: txrefugee
After he was caught in some crooked financial dealing, Democrats threw Torricelli out of his candidacy for Sen. from NJ at the last minute and put in Lautenberg, who remains in office to this sweet day.

Legally Torricelli withdrew from the race, he wasn't removed. Now there is no doubt is withdrawl was done with a whole lot of pressure from the Democrats in Jersey but the fact is he wasn't kicked off the ballot. Unless Akin voluntarily withdraws then I don't think there is a whole lot the Missouri GOP can do. I don't see him doing that on his own.

68 posted on 08/20/2012 8:26:02 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: Second Amendment First

How many times do liberal women say things about men that are objectionable, without nary an outcry? That said, it is a silly remark, and should have little bearing on anything. Reminds me of the comment(s) about women in foxholes etc. Women/libs get so upset about silly words, but have no problem with molesters and killers and rapists in office, if they are Democrat.


69 posted on 08/20/2012 8:27:11 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: newzjunkey

Now I know I’m on the right side, since it’s the opposite of your opinion.


70 posted on 08/20/2012 8:27:35 AM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: sometime lurker
There is research out there in a peer reviewed journal, cited by the CDC, that the conception rate is about 5%, and that an estimated 32,000 pregnancies annually result from rape.

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

71 posted on 08/20/2012 8:27:58 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Strategerist

The emergency contraception pill should prevent the release of an unfertilized egg. There is about a six day window of fertility, five days of pre-ovulation sperm survival, and only one day of post-ovulation ovum survival.

It’s been speculated that the ECP could make the uterine lining less hospitable to the embryo, but I’m doubtful. The ECP in the US is a high progestin pill (synthetic progesterone) and there is a natural rise in progesterone after ovulation to preserve the uterine lining. Established oral contraceptive use may well thin the lining.

Akin said something stupid and the only honorable, honest thing to do is admit it. “I meant to say forcible rape. I’m sorry. I was indulging in wishful thinking as well. Of course women can become pregnant as a result of rape. Again, I’m sorry for saying something ignorant.”

How unusual that would be.


72 posted on 08/20/2012 8:28:42 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: sometime lurker
What part of “less likely” don't you understand. Of course it happens. A woman biting and kicking and attempting to end an encounter is bound to get pregnant much less often than one have a loving consensual encounter. It is a stupid argument no doubt and one case is tragic for both the victims of the crime. If there are 1.6 million abortions yearly and all 32000 rape pregnancies are aborted then the rate is about 1.5% of abortions are rape related. Leaving out statutory rape and false claims though unknown would reduce this.
73 posted on 08/20/2012 8:29:16 AM PDT by muskah
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To: Uncle Chip

No they haven’t. I work in the medical field and I can tell you there’s not a single legitimate source that will back up his quackery. It has no basis in scientific fact, studies have repeatedly shown that women can and do get pregnant as a consequence of rape. What he said is so backwards and completely illogical that it boggles the mind at the sort of stupidity that can emerge from someone’s mouth.


74 posted on 08/20/2012 8:32:03 AM PDT by PhxTM06
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To: Uncle Chip

No, I said that it wouldn’t protect against pregnancy, and the body wouldn’t distinguish “evil rapist sperm” from “loving husband sperm”. I notice for someone demanding studies, you have cited none.

The study that has been cited on this thread repeatedly is the 1996 study by Holmes et al, showing a pregnancy rate of approximately 5%, with an estimated 32,000 rape related pregnancies annually. As I’ve pointed out, there’s also evidence from the Rwandan ethnic cleansing, and probably the Bosnian as well.


75 posted on 08/20/2012 8:34:58 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: Second Amendment First
I see there are the Akin criticizers on this thread as well.

Challenge to all of you. . .what would you have said in response to the very direction question about abortion in cases of rape? Can you think of one thing that he could have said that the MSM would not have jumped on with both feet?

76 posted on 08/20/2012 8:35:12 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: 9YearLurker
“That definition of yours is rape. No qualification required.”

That makes absolutely no sense.

SOME women lie and everyone knows it so don't make it sound like all of these women are virtuous creatures who aren't as wild (or wilder) than the guys.

77 posted on 08/20/2012 8:35:44 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: servantboy777
Read a report this morning of a contingent of U.S. congressmen in Israel on a fact finding mission (yea right), boozin it up and at least one of’em skinny dipping in the sea where “Jesus walked on water”.

If anyone in the Republican party owes Akin a big 'thank you' then it's Kevin Yoder. Without Akin's verbal screw-up, Yoder's skinny-dipping would be frontpage news.

78 posted on 08/20/2012 8:37:10 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The guy will be gone, regardless of the validity of the point, it was delivered so clumbsily no one is going to touch it.. His comments will be a distraction, and no one is going to go out and defend it. The more its talked about the longer it goes on, the longer it goes on the more it hurts.


79 posted on 08/20/2012 8:37:28 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: backwoods-engineer

“I say Akin did nothing wrong.”

You’re not one of those who believe that women secrete some magic spermicidal fluid during a rape are you?

By agreeing with Akin, you sound just as ignorant as he does.


80 posted on 08/20/2012 8:37:53 AM PDT by PhxTM06
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