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In reply to the discussion: Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)65. Iowa has given us Tom Harkin
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Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest [View all]
onehandle
Aug 2012
OP
Maybe he should keep checking within his family. Just because nobody told him doesn't mean
nanabugg
Aug 2012
#64
Yeah--rather like celibate priests deciding issues concerning women's reproductive
tblue37
Aug 2012
#54
IA-4 is in play (currently a "Lean Republican" district); Christie Vilsack can use help
brooklynite
Aug 2012
#20
None personally, so when all his friends tell him about the sex they have with their daughters
CBGLuthier
Aug 2012
#24
All 32,000 of those women enjoyed it and had orgasms - that's why they got pregnant.
kestrel91316
Aug 2012
#57
"but I don't know enough to figure out if it was rape since they were both minors"
geardaddy
Aug 2012
#38
He's never heard of it? He's stupid and dense and willfully deaf and forgetfull and ignorant. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2012
#35
Sadly, mostly uneducated people are their fans, and they continue to influence education in this
juajen
Aug 2012
#56
Does this man live in a closet without modern communication...or is he deaf
Auntie Bush
Aug 2012
#42
Someone needs to educate that idiot. Not only do pregnancies through incest occur, the
appleannie1
Aug 2012
#49
Why is he making such obviously untrue statements? Is he that ignorant? What does gain from such
wake.up.america
Aug 2012
#73
Steve, maybe you're such an asshole no one wants to bring a personal thing like that up with you
JHB
Aug 2012
#76
Thats because you, steve, think women are not worth being listened to or believed
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2012
#96
Akin, King and anyone who thinks rape can not lead to pregnancy is an idiot.
shcrane71
Aug 2012
#113
Any pregnant 9-10 year old was raped, cause guys don't get fertile until around 12-14---and that
McCamy Taylor
Aug 2012
#114
Never heard of it? He sounds like he's a product of incest. He should ask his mother.
notadmblnd
Aug 2012
#126