[hcmama]

......"the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

I actually think this is the part of Aiken's statement that is idiotic. Or can you enlighten me on the ways women have of spontaneously shutting down their ovum during the course of a "legitimate rape?" Pity it was not available to the thousands of German women who bore babies that were the product of rape by Russian soldiers after the fall of Berlin.

[Strategerist]

I actually think this is the part of Aiken's statement that is idiotic. Or can you enlighten me on the ways women have of spontaneously shutting down their ovum during the course of a "legitimate rape?"

It's tough when you have such fierce competition for stupidest clause in what Akin said, but I agree that in the long term this will end up being the most damaging part of what Akin said - it wasn't the result of poor word choice or a single slip; it fits all too easily in the meme of old white Republican men not understanding female reproductive functions.

[Diamond]

Addressed in post 23, which I have not yet seen refuted.

Cordially,