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Oh my goodness Humidston, why don’t YOU come to his defense with that silly piece of fiction.

Akin did three things very wrong, just to clarify it and as I see it. First, he’d heard that if a female is “legitimately” raped she will likely not conceive, that the body is too traumatized to conceive.

Now I don’t care about no studies way back during the Nazi era, take a deep breath here, that was some sixty plus years ago. Who knows what kind of data they had and how it was kept, how they knew who was “legitimately” raped? I suppose that it’s biologically possible but the proof is not so much. The odds of conceiving when raped are slim, however, in that the rape victim would have to be a female of age to conceive and be ovulating at the time of the rape, said ovulation being only two/three days a month. what are the odds?

But the argument that woman don’t get pregnant when raped is ignorant beyond comprehension and a bit dismissive of the rape victim.

I too kind of understand his term “legitimate” rape in that there is “date rape”, which is very bad but it’s not a back alley rape. There is also statutory rape and again, it’s not a back alley rape. still and so, if ever there were an unfortunate phraseology, “legitimate” rape has got to be it. Even Whoopi Goldberg’s almost as stupid term of “rape rape” is not quite as dumb.

Akin went on, not content with having done enough damage, to walk a very difficult path by asserting that the rapist should be punished, not the innocent baby.

Which means he does NOT think the baby conceived via rape should be aborted and right there is a difficult road.

Any woman who can imagine the humiliation and pain of being raped will cringe at the thought of having to bear the child for nine months of the rapist, of all that having to deal with a birth under those conditions....

....lookit, it’s not where the pubs want to go.

Sad. I’m tending to agree with some broader broad point Akin is trying to make.

You make abortion illegal for all but rape and incest, trust that the libs will get some 11 year old who’s miserable and pregnant with her own father’s baby.

This is the sort of thing left undebated....Akin not only engaged in awkward wording, he put the political party in an odd position.

Because if any yon reader thinks that abortion will EVER be outlawed even in the case of incest and rape, well I got a bridge to sell cheap.

And if abortion is legal in the case of incest and rape only, trust that every woman who wants to have an abortion will assert that the baby is the result of....duh, incest or rape.

And so we are back to square one.

We don’t need to go there and this is not the year.

You are right, Fishtalk - but I am still so angry about this.

Any women with the level of malnutrition and poor health as those in Nazi camps would have a difficult time conceiving if they even wanted to! Women stop having periods when they are that thin and malnourished.

‘Legitimate’ rape? This makes my blood boil. I do not support abortion at all - but this is the kind of thing said by people who are completely devoid of any shred of humanity or empathy for the suffering of others.

When I told my dear, 77 year old, conservative, mother what this jack@$$ said - it took her fifteen minutes to pick her jaw up from the floor. She doesn’t support abortion either and she was equally horrified.

Sounds like someone snatched up this idiot today though and taught him the facts of life. A shame the focus of the election was highjacked in this manner but frankly, I think that he deserves to lose for living to be the age he has and maintaining such a high level of ignorance and for being a jack@$$. If he is this ignorant about women’s anatomy and the facts of life, God only knows what other completely ignorant things this man believes or what decisions he might potentially make based on them.