Watch Republican Rep. Todd Akin Mistake Women for Bees, Rats, and Squirrels

Rape is rape.  With raping children/incest, it starts with coercion and molestation.  So, if it isn't "forced," it isn't rape. SMDH  They are blowing smoke and alienating (some, not all) women, instead of focusing on the issues at hand (i.e. economy, jobs, health care, etc.) they are totally focusing and pandering to their base with social issues (there is nothing fiscally conservative about trying to differentiate "legitimate rape" from "illegitimate rape." WTH is that?).  Someone needs a birds and bees discussion.  They act like they don't know where babies come from. A stork? 

This guy Akin makes me sick, disgusted, and furious. And just think, he's on the House Science and Technology Committee, and he doesn't have a clue about anything.

Not only should he NOT be elected to the Senate, he should not hold any position that gives him any power over another human being.

Furthermore, I think he should spend the rest of his natural life working in a rape crisis center, learning at firsthand just what it means to be raped and molested, up front and personal, directly from victims.

I have no use for this guy whatsoever. None.

And the sickening part of it is...I think he'll probably get elected.

I have no tolerance whatsoever for people who make jokes about rape. I remember when local weather forecaster Tex Antoine reacted to a rape story being broadcast on "Eyewitness News" by saying, "Well, if it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." The switchboard lit up. He was lit. I was told that he went to a party later that evening, he got further sauced, and stood there, blabbering about how he couldn't understand why nobody thought his joke was funny.

He got the axe.

Akins should get the same.

I've heard the ENTIRE QUOTE--he was wrong in saying women dont get pregnant--anyway, they always had for women who were pregnant when raped BEFORE ROE V WADE in 1973--they would give them abortions if the woman wanted one (incest & rape)... he was also saying the rapist should get jailtime BUT THE BABY SHOULDNT DIE FOR THE FATHERS SIN....they only play PART OF THE QUOTE!!

I don't want to offend the Republicans in this community but Repubican politicians are pure evil.  The Republican party had gone crazy with the influence of the Tea Party movement.  They are in league with the corporations to  eliminate the middle class.  They didn't used to be so nuts.  I'm not saying that all Republicans are racists but every racist that I know is Republican.  As J.C.Watts' father once said: "A black who votes Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."  As a white man, Republican racists will often let their guard down around me.  I love catching them and never pass up an opportunity to call them out when they do.  Republicans are supposed to be conservative but they want to control women's reproductive rights.  They want to decide when women should be able to have abortions.  How is that conservative? They pontificate about the rights of the unborn but once they are born they are on their own.  No money for safety nets for women caught up in the broken economy which they caused.  Just blame everthing on the black guy even though the Republicans did everything possible to prevent the President from trying to fix the economy.  Fortunately the vast majority of blacks understand all this.  I just have to convince my fellow whites who are being duped by the Republicans. 

What's with the Christians in your country.. OK I'm sane enough to realise that this is nothing compare to other religious ppl.

I just remember the Christians of my childhood as being good and honest people helping each other out..

Can't even say I'm surprised by his comments. Disgusted, but not surprised. This is why even though I am pro-life except in the cases of rape, incest and the mother's health, I have not been able to reconcile that belief with support of the pro-life movement, it's perpetuators,  or most of the pro-life legislation that has come out. They are all too uninformed or too extremist. It's a quandary... Morally what I believe and argue for is more pro-life, but realistically I can't see a legal framework for criminalizing abortion which doesn't infringe on a woman's sovereignty over her own body. What to do, what to do?... 

I think generally there are more people "in the middle" of the abortion issue than there are those on the extreme end (ie. full term abortions, verses no abortions with no exceptions), but the extremes, as always, tend to be the most vocal.

The first thing I thought about when I heard Akin's comments was that when White masters raped their Black slaves in the antebellum South, the children that resulted from such unions proved that the slaves had not been raped.

Get it?  According to Akin, if you get pregnant, you weren't "legitimately" raped.

Scary that he could still win his Senate seat.

Reminds me of what a NC legislator said in the nineties, that women can't get pregnant when raped because "the juices don't flow."  These people are the poster children for why we need sex education in public schools!  And I'm not talking about passing out condoms to 12 year-olds and saying "Have at it!"  I'm talking about biology and reproductive health.  Rick Santorum is against abortion in all cases--no exceptions--as well.  And whenever you bring up life of the mother, Bill O'Reilly scoffs and says "well that could mean anything."

First - the link appears to be broken or has expired. Second - abortion debates are always tricky, but most people are wise enough to give the exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother a wide berth as it only ever alienates women as a voting block. Anytime a male politcian tries to tell a woman about her own body, especially in a rape context he looks like an a-hole. If a woman has just been violated the last thing she needs is someone else "taking control" of her body. Facts time. I think, somewhere is his convulted mind, he was referring the role of the female orgasm. Some scientists believe that one of its purposes is aid on conception by bringing the cervix closer to where semen is deposited in the vaginal canal and to guide the semen toward the fallopian tubes. (without a diagram it is hard to explain) of course women are in pain and therefore not orgasming during rape. What this idiot fails to understand is that a women need not orgasm to become pregnant. In fact a lot of women don't orgasm during consensual sex and still get pregnant. Suffice to say this crotchetey old man knows very little about women's health and even less about rape cases. If a woman is treated immediately/quickly after being raped she is likely to be offered the morning after pill. This would also decrease the amount of abortions due to rape as it prevents the pregnancy in the first place. Let's not even mention unreported rapes or the women rendered incapable of pregancy after such an assault or women who decide to give birth to a child concieved during a rape.

Yes, Akin "misspoke" again later, agreeing that he was referring to "forcible" rape. He should just stop speaking altogether, stop digging that hole deeper and deeper. I am so sick of hearing these men talk about women's bodies, and I'm sick of hearing the people (men and women) that want to take away our choices. I know there are people against abortion in certain cases, and then there are those against abortion in all cases - but either way, why should they be allowed to take this right away from any woman? I had a friend that chose to have an abortion for non-medical issues, I have a cousin that needed to have one for medical reasons, I don't judge either of them for it.

So apparently this "forcible" rape refers to non-statutory rape. But then what falls under "forcible"? Does a gun have to be pointed to my face while I'm being raped? What if I'm passed out drunk? Or what if I'm just scared of the possibility of being hurt and lay down without a fight?

Why do the circumstances matter? And as pointed out, unfortunately our bodies do not have the special abilities that some animals' bodies possess to select the sperm, terminate pregnancies, etc. So yes, it is very possible for a child to be conceived from a rape. Anyways...I say wanting to have an abortion for any reason, is a good enough reason to have one.

Also, that is the face of evil. I mean he doesn't even look human. He looks like the sunburned turd of Satan. O_o  Creepy.

Not just raped but raped "legitimately". I guess that fail-safe only kicks in with the purest, goodiest, women who TOTALLY didn't ask for it. 

*puke*

Everything about his comment was stupid. Everything about his non-apology was stupid. I hope he falls into a black hole. :|

I'm so tired of hearing a man's opinion of what women should do with their bodies. Enough already! And wtf happened to just saying, " When it comes to this topic, I don't have enough information to give you an answer." He didn't misspeak. I don't care if he meant to say 'forcible' and not legitimate. His views and those of Mike Huckabee's are disgusting.

And to think people like him were once the legacies at Ivy League colleges that deserving people get rejected from because they weren't born into a spot. smh 

he is just your typical dumba** politician. 

OK dud er dude said he's sorry that should fix it.... shouldn't it?

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/08/todd-akin-rape-apology-ad-/1#.UDOi3KO0KSo

He's not the only one who believes that women who are raped cannot get pregnant. So, our job, is to teach our daughters and sons that sexual assault is a vicious crime (I like how Akin said there should be SOME punishment for the rapist!). And we can go against The Right's recent war on science and teach out kids where babies come from (yes, babies are conceived under stressful, violent situations and consensual situations, too!. So pathetic, the misinformation!)

And Republicans wonder why some of us hold the attitudes that we do about the party. 

He's just typical and nothing more. Most elected officials above the school board level are the scum of the earth. 

Maybe if he got raped, he understand what he's talking about. 

he didn't "misspoke".he said what he really felt.....nothing but utter hatred and contempt for women.

"legitimate rape?!"

O_o

there's a bridge waiting for him to jump off of it.

Mike Huckabee has decided to contribute to the fart cloud

http://gawker.com/5936386/mike-huckabee-would-like-to-remind-you-that-rape-has-created-some-extraordinary-people

There are not words to describe how stupid and moronic this man is.