We always knew there were yahoos out there. Us left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers in the Godless Heathen Liberal Northeast especially have always had images of guys with no teeth living in shacks with cars up on blocks in the front yard, a houn' dawg on the porch, and a whole messa guns. Or at least that's what the right thinks we think. They don't bother to explain this:
We expect guys like this to be out there in pockets of the hinterlands where they still refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. But in the last few years they've been tempted by the siren song of K Street money and their Christian Crusade and started sending guys just like them to Washington. And as long as there were only a few of them, like Louie Gohmert (otherwise known as The Stupidest Fucking Moron Ever To Sit In Congress), we could point at them and laugh. But now, they're starting to make inroads into the upper house of Congress, and there's a very real chance that Democratic sellout Claire McCaskill may be booted out in favor of this guy:
Would someone please tell me what a "legitimate" rape is?
Would someone please tell me what a "legitimate" rape is?
The implication of what he said seems pretty clear. "Legitimate" rape, "real" rape, can't lead to pregnancy. So if you do get pregnant, it can't have been "real" rape. You probably asked for it and are just making a big fuss over nothing so you can get an abortion.
To quote a favorite blogger, "Good fucking God, where does the Republican Party find these trolls?"
If the victim doesn't get pregnant, then it's a "legitimate" rape -- similar to throwing the accused into the water and the ones who drown are innocent !
Akin is a misogynist idiot. First, rape-induced pregnancy is NOT rare by any stretch of the imagination. Second, by calling some rapes "legitimate," he seems to be implying that some women are allegedly crying rape. The LAST thing we need in a position of power is a man with such toxic, misinformed beliefs.
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The implication of what he said seems pretty clear. "Legitimate" rape, "real" rape, can't lead to pregnancy. So if you do get pregnant, it can't have been "real" rape. You probably asked for it and are just making a big fuss over nothing so you can get an abortion.
To quote a favorite blogger, "Good fucking God, where does the Republican Party find these trolls?"