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Oh my: Missouri GOP Senate nominee says victims of ‘legitimate rape’ don’t get pregnant
Twitchy team ^

Posted on 08/19/2012 12:59:08 PM PDT by Perdogg

“Legitimate rape” became a Twitter trending topic in the U.S. this afternoon after liberal blog Talking Points Memo posted a video of Rep. Todd Akin claiming that victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: akin; clairemccaskill; elections; gaffe; missouri; mo2012; rape; toddakin; truthfulbutstupid
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1 posted on 08/19/2012 12:59:11 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

McDonnell smear job take two. Did not work in VA, will not work in MO any better


2 posted on 08/19/2012 1:00:25 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Perdogg
If Adkin said something really this stupid he deserves to lose!
3 posted on 08/19/2012 1:00:56 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Perdogg; All

What does any MAN know about “legitimate rape”?? They should try it some time.


4 posted on 08/19/2012 1:02:30 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Reily

True that.


5 posted on 08/19/2012 1:02:40 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Watch the video...it’s painful.


6 posted on 08/19/2012 1:03:00 PM PDT by Perdogg (Mutts for Mitt all agree Â…Better in the crate than on the plate)
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To: Reily

What a dumbass.


7 posted on 08/19/2012 1:04:39 PM PDT by Perdogg (Mutts for Mitt all agree - Better in the crate than on the plate)
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To: Perdogg

Even if he used the term “legitimate rape” as the opposite of false rape claims, that was still a stupid comment.


8 posted on 08/19/2012 1:05:22 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
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To: Perdogg

On both sides of the aisle, the American political class is increasingly composed of people too stupid to make it in private industry - if the report on what this guy said is true, he’s a prime example.


9 posted on 08/19/2012 1:06:50 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

why say anything about it?


10 posted on 08/19/2012 1:07:21 PM PDT by Perdogg (Mutts for Mitt all agree - Better in the crate than on the plate)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

there is a video of it.


11 posted on 08/19/2012 1:08:06 PM PDT by Perdogg (Mutts for Mitt all agree - Better in the crate than on the plate)
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To: Perdogg; MNJohnnie; Reily
Let's go to the video...@Todd Akin on Rape and Abortion, The Jaco Report, 8/19/2012

@Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate: ‘Legitimate rape’ rarely causes pregnancy
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

12 posted on 08/19/2012 1:08:24 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Perdogg

Main issue in a forcible rape is not resulting pregnancy. The main issues are physical abuse and mental torture forced upon the victim. Pregnancy has medical solutions, mental trauma does not have easy solutions.


13 posted on 08/19/2012 1:08:36 PM PDT by entropy12 (Hate is the most insidious emotion, it will grow cancer in your body.)
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To: Perdogg
why say anything about it?

He was responding to a question "what about in the case of rape". That doesn't make it any less stupid.

14 posted on 08/19/2012 1:11:17 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
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15 posted on 08/19/2012 1:11:47 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: philman_36

Poor choice of words which well may hound him to defeat!


16 posted on 08/19/2012 1:11:54 PM PDT by Reily
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To: MNJohnnie
You really gotta' watch the video. Still trying to figure out how this works ~ maybe the way it did in "FAR SIDE" ~ the outerspace critters who took humans away from ancient Earth to be bred into a Protector Race were so modified.

You get these ideas when you drink beer or bad wine and watch sci fi tv shows.

17 posted on 08/19/2012 1:12:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Perdogg

We’ve already GOT plenty of stoopid people in Washington, don’t need this one. Even if he is a Republican.


18 posted on 08/19/2012 1:12:40 PM PDT by Mrs. P (Figures can lie, and liars can figure.)
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To: Perdogg

How quickly can the GOP replace this numbskull? He was up by 11 pts for crying out loud. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut until the election and he wins. Sheesh.


19 posted on 08/19/2012 1:12:56 PM PDT by GnL
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To: gleeaikin

Same as any WOMAN knows about war.

Men get raped. Check out any prison with men in it.

There are about 2 pregnancies for every 1000 cases of forcible rape,not statutory rape.

This is mostly a red herring be the LEFT.


20 posted on 08/19/2012 1:14:34 PM PDT by Reaganez
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