The ‘legitimate rape’ reference is something that Republicans put in House bills regarding medicaid funding (rape loopholes) so they look a bit cowardly running away from it now.
Romney's comment “Rape is rape” over-simplifies the issue. Wasn't the intent to deny medicaid funding in the case of statutory rapes?
In one case in Maryland a women charged rape after she gave consent but changed her mind in the middle of the act, the judge threw the case out and outraged feminists.
I think it was his comment about a women having a natural shutdown of her reproductive system that really made him look stupid.
there are many stupid people that believe in the magic uterus.
The ‘legitimate rape’ reference is something that Republicans put in House bills regarding medicaid funding (rape loopholes) so they look a bit cowardly running away from it now.
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Interesting...
But those same Republicans were required to walk lock step with whatever Willard said or suffer Akins fate along with him...
Willard will suffer no free thinking...
We live in Upstate NY and my husband was recently on a grand jury--there were MANY cases of "non-legitimate rape" that he had to review. One case was where there were MANY consensual occasions, yet, when the woman got caught having "side interests" and had to explain where she was late at night to her live-in boyfriend, she told him she had been "raped" by her "friend." And this being NYS, the judge NEVER throws non-legitimate rape cases out. The woman's "side dish" got thrown in prison for "rape." The district attorney and one of the local investigators said that this happens more than you want to know about.