“His mistaken and asinine ‘belief’ results in what exactly when the rubber hits the road? Nothing. Zero “
But as a woman how can you reconcile the fact that he stated that legitimate rape doesn’t result in pregnancy or only very rarely.
He is saying that if you say you were raped and got pregnant then you weren’t really raped but in effect you wanted it and enjoyed it but are now claiming rape for some other reason.
Indefensible on any grounds.
Lacking the proper equipment, I cannot speak for them. And as I said, he was totally wrong. But those women have a choice to stand behind a man wit one stupidity problem they vehemently disagree with, or face the prospect of more Claire or similar from a RINO. And it will be MANY things they disagree with.
Current dogma here is ‘go to war with the army you have. My whole point is why Romney and not this guy? The double standard being applied would make a liberal blush.
What happened to the ‘congress will restrain him’ arguments. Why do they not apply? Cant fellow repubs hold this guy to sanity but they can with his boss? Why not elect him, get the seat, then flush him next time like is the argument for getting Romney in?
I have resigned myself to Mitt’s coming win. But the hypocrisy at work hear is crazier than Akin is.
For crying out loud, he said NOTHING of the kind! Talk about reading into things. You have one heck of an imagination to have listened to his interview and inferred something so nefarious. Many pro-life web sites have articles and FAQs stating exactly what he said, that the stress of a forcible rape makes it less likely for a woman to become pregnant. He innocently read those articles and believed them to be accurate. That's it.
Akin didn't say that. First of all, the word he meant to say is forcible instead of legitimate. Paul Ryan and Akin co-sponsored an abortion-related bill that would have limited federal funding for abortions to victims of forcible rape," rather than just rape. The FBI's definition of rape is known as "forcible rape," and it is used to distinguish between statutory rape and other kinds of rape.
Akins never said that rape could not happen during forcible rape. This is what he said during an interview on the Huckabee show:
Huckabee asked Akin whether he was talking about "forcible rape" when he used the term "legitimate rape."
"I was talking about forcible rape, and it was absolutely the wrong word," Akin said.
Akin said he understands that women can become pregnant from rape. "I didn't mean to imply that wasn't the case," he said. "That does happen."