Rep. Gingrey: Akin "partly right" about "legitimate rape"
Source: cbs news
And in Missouri, Todd Akin
was asked by a local news source about rape and he said, Look, in a legitimate rape situation and what he meant by legitimate rape was just look, someone can say I was raped: a scared-to-death 15-year-old that becomes impregnated by her boyfriend and then has to tell her parents, thats pretty tough and might on some occasion say, Hey, I was raped. Thats what he meant when he said legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. I dont find anything so horrible about that. But then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a womans body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. Hes partly right on that.
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And Ive delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And dont be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate. So he was partially right wasnt he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, youre not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a womans body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak. And yet the media took that and tore it apart.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57563531-10391739/rep-gingrey-akin-partly-right-about-legitimate-rape/
The stupid will find a way.
edited for spelling
aquart
(69,014 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rep. Gingery is the redhead Congressman from South Park, CO.
And not even Cartman could sink to this level of stupidity.
MissMarple
(9,656 posts)klook
(12,154 posts)-- Cobb County and points farther northwest. One of many cretins elected by Georgians in recent years.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)I would not feel safe putting my healthcare into the hands of someone who wants to parse words (again, within a false frame) to deny women healthcare.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)to hang on to their eggs (and thus not become pregnant) when they're "uptight". When does this ever happen? And edit to add: that "relax and have a glass of wine" bullshit about not being able to conceive sounds to me like a suggestion that it's a woman's emotional fault she can't get pregnant--if she just "relaxes" and enjoys it, she'll conceive. Blech.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)Just relax, honey. Stop being so uptight and let Nature take it's course - as if Nature, her husband, and her doctor are all much wiser than she and best able to tell her what she needs to do for her body to get pregnant.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)how would he propose that we find out when the horse left the barn (sic)?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)As we all know, nothing is clear until Dr. Phil explains it to us. He's a deep, deep Republican, and he knows plenty.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)on the House floor?
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)and his attempt to spin it otherwise is really abhorrent.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)to shut the FUCK up?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They just keep making it worse for themselves.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)And use either one of these two zip codes: 30120 and 30121 for Cartersville, Georgia.
http://gingrey.house.gov/contact/
groundloop
(11,519 posts)30120 is split between the 11th and the newly formed 14th district.
Also, Gingrey used to be my rep until Georgia gerrymandered itself another repub seat last year, now I'm in the new 14th district. Believe it or not my new rep is even more batshit crazy than Gingrey.
Stuart G
(38,425 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)fucking misogynistic IDIOTS
Deep13
(39,154 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)The stupid is certainly strong in this one.
47of74
(18,470 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Get me out of this f..ing state .. please.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)This jerkoff might not lose his seat but keep associating the entire party to these sort of ludicrous statements and it can only help us.
catbyte
(34,384 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,287 posts)There are doctors in our country who are absolute fucking idiots.
tandot
(6,671 posts)please proceed, Republicans ... continue with your utterly stupid comments ... next election, the Democratic Party will have great material for ads. Can't wait for them to take over the House again.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)and his practice.
A horrified K&R
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Unscientific horsepuckey.
randome
(34,845 posts)Good God, they don't have halfway decent politicians any longer!
alarimer
(16,245 posts)How they hell did these people make it through medical school?
davesliberal1977_gg
(22 posts)Let's hope more idiots like him speak up. That way, the GOP will become even more marginalized and irrelevant than before.