The guy probably has a point, but the point is so Un-PC that it is not permitted to be spoken by the MSM. Feminists have long said that even reporting a rape is so traumatic that no woman would make a false rape claim. That was said by some for months of the Duke Rape Hoax.
But false rape claims are made and the term “date rape” was made up to try and claim “legitimate rape” in cases where both parties might have been intoxicated, or otherwise judgmentally impaired, so that “legitimate rape” could be claimed in very unclear circumstances (often after the fact, or regret realized after heads had cleared).
Pretty ham-handed of the candidate to walk into this obvious PC trap, and it will hurt him to some extent even though he had a legitimate, but highly Un-PC point.
1) His statement was stupid
2) He should be replaced
3) His presence on the ticket hurts the GOP
Now, having said all that, I have to add that it seems to me he was actually making a valid point -- although being ridiculously clumsy about it.
The question put to him was an attempt to justify legal abortion -- after all, if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant (a Liberal would say) shouldn't we make sure that she could have an abortion??
Akin was trying to say that legalizing abortion on the pretext that millions of women are raped and impregnanted is just bad law-making. You don't use hard cases to design your laws.
Rape is bad, and pregnancies resulting from rape are very unfortunate. But I do not support abortion laws that take rape into consideration. Infanticide is always wrong. Killing the child of a criminal because of the father's crime is always wrong. I think Akin was trying to go in a sensible direction, but I think he expressed himself terribly. Now he will pay the price.
Get real. The guy doesn’t have a point.
Pregnancy is rare in cases of rape because DOCTORS handle the issue at the hospital if the woman comes in right after the rape by administering the morning-after pill, not because the body shuts down.
The pro-life movement is never going to win the argument in cases of rape with the American public, and this idiot set us back many years in our better arguments for banning abortions EXCEPT in cases of rape or incest
I was one of the people who cried foul on the Duke rape case, because the whole story stank to high heaven. That being said, there are cases where women, particularly young women, are too traumatized to open up their mouths about rape until the evidence is undeniable.
It happened to someone very close to me. Over 20 years later, she still has annual battles with depression for about a month around the anniversary of the attack.
Still sorry I didn't put a bullet in the bastard's head.
That’s not the reason the term ‘date rape’ was coined, and the guy doesn’t have a legitimate point—talking about legitimacy.
A point?? He has no point. This statement revealed one thing only. That he is an idiot and now has no chance of winning. He needs to withdraw.
tHE ONLY way to push back againt the PC mindset is to Speak Out in an un PC way. Now of course this guy is bending over backwards to apologize which destroys him.
He should have said, “A woman can concieve 6 days out of a month, if she is raped.....do the math.”