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GOP Senate Candidate: Victims of “Legitimate Rape” Don’t Get Pregnant

Todd Akin, the Missouri U.S. Senate candidate who wants the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act overturned, also believes abortion should be illegal even for rape victims because victims of “legitimate rape” have body functions that prevent pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim.

“Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,” Akin said. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”

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2 Comments

  1. Darrell McLaughlin

    August 19, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    This guys an idiot. He is the reason the GOP has a tought time making headway in politics. There are to many morons taking center stage and holding up the republican banner, common since is being driven out of free speeh by the mutterings of fools.

  2. JIC

    August 19, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I hope this a joke.
    US Senate?
    Get me a plane ticket out of here.