Senate canidate's rape comments stir outcry

[mrveggieman]

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world...n-1502441.html

[Star_Cards]

saw this this morning. I've heard speculation that this will cost him his re-election bid.

Why in the heck would he need to qualify something as "legitimate rape" in his statement? You'd think a politician would know better than to say that. I also don't know where he's getting his information that a women's body can shut down reproduction in instances of rape. I'm no medical expert put that sounds false. The sad thing is people will probably start saying that now.

[pghin08]

Really a bizarre statement to make.

[AUTaxMan]

saw this this morning. I've heard speculation that this will cost him his re-election bid.

Why in the heck would he need to qualify something as "legitimate rape" in his statement? You'd think a politician would know better than to say that. I also don't know where he's getting his information that a women's body can shut down reproduction in instances of rape. I'm no medical expert put that sounds false. The sad thing is people will probably start saying that now.

A poor choice of words, obviously, but this shouldn't be the type of thing that costs somebody an election. It's not like he was making a policy statement, differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate rapes. If he had just not said "legitimate," the same meaning would have been conveyed without the firestorm.

[pwaldo]

This would probably end his chances of winning in November but the Democrat isn't popular either and it seems to be a Republican state. Should make the race tight when it shouldn't have been in the first place if this guy stays in it.

[Wickabee]

I also don't know where he's getting his information that a women's body can shut down reproduction in instances of rape. I'm no medical expert put that sounds false.

Well, apparently you're more of an expert than he is:

Physicians and rape experts say there’s no way the trauma of rape would prevent pregnancy from occurring.
“If a woman’s ovaries have already released an egg, she’s just as likely to get pregnant from a rape as she would be from a voluntary encounter,” Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president for health policy at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told NBC News. “From the biological standpoint, a woman is at risk for pregnancy if she’s at a vulnerable point in her menstrual cycle when the rape occurs.”

source: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...pregnancy?lite

I actually have way more of a problem with that idea than "legitimate" rape, because I see the point he is trying to make by qualifying it as such. However, any smart Missouri liberal would turn around and use this as as a reason why sex education should be taught in school, because he could've used a class or two.

The sad thing is people will probably start saying that now.

Even I have enough faith in humans to believe that only the stupidest of the stupid will believe what he said.

[JustAlex]

Todd Akin....is he stupid, crazy, ignorant, or all of the above?

Yet another national embarrassment for the already clownish GOP.

[marekschwarz33]

Dumb comment but it doesn't surprise me coming from Akin. I'm a Missourian and I really didn't want this guy to be nominated. I voted for John Brunner in the primary. Don't like McCaskill at all either though so I'll probably vote Libertarian.

[habsheaven]

Come tomorrow he will not be the Republican candidate so you may get to vote for Brunner in the end.

[Wickabee]

Todd Akin....is he stupid, crazy, ignorant, or all of the above?

Yet another national embarrassment for the already clownish GOP.

Now alex, be fair. Not one member of the GOP has defended this. You've always contended they would defend anything lest it appear there's a rift in the party.