Gawd I hope this individual loses the election. What a moron. What biological defenses? How medieval.

"I'm a complete and total dumbass who knows nothing about anything and I hereby quit the race because of the aforementioned fact. I'm sorry I am breathing the same air as you and I am moving to Saudi Arabia at once."

No, Mr. Akin. When a Presidential candidate mistakenly says he's visited 57 states instead of 50, that is misspeaking.

What you did was blurt out a horrible, indefensible nugget of far-right ideology. You are a monster and a waste of oxygen and if Missouri has any decency they will keep you FAR away from the United States Senate.

n/t

He lied and then got called out for it.

Fuck him and the rest of these old white crusty men who have nothing better to do than worry about what a woman does with her own body!

STFU - go fugg yourself Akin

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If it wasn't brought to his attention.

I'm confused.

If there's anyone I'd trust to know stuff about women's bodies, it's a rightwing religious extremist Republican white male, dontcha know.

pregnant after being raped weren't really raped at all. That's not 'mis-speaking', that's 'Yahoo-ism.'

".....but only after questioning whether it might be misused “in a real messy divorce as a tool and a legal weapon to beat up on the husband,” according to a May 1 article that year in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via LexisNexis)."

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-richard-mourdock-senate-republicans.php

the text says he voted for the bill. Incidentaly I agree with the vote against the sex offender registry.

I made an edit to explain it better.

I don't think our return to the days of the scarlet letter is anything to be proud of.

He certainly distrusts women, and I'm not entirely sure from his statements that he knows where babies come from in the "insert tab A into slot B" sense of the term.

"This was not meant to be a factual statement.". - Sen Jon Kyl (R - of course)

wtf

But he got confused and misspoke out confusion.

someone will make a poster of a picture of Akin with the words Women who are victims of "legitimate rape" have biological defenses that fend off a pregnancy and therefore do not need legal abortion rights. Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO)

I'd love to put it on Facebook.

Was it "legitimate rape"? Was it "victims have biological defenses that fend off pregnancy"?
Or was it that you left out your obvious pander bullshit so you do not alienate women voters?. "deep empathy" my ass

That POS did not misspeak.

You benighted backwards inbred fool!

&quot Rape victims) will have no stronger advocate in the Senate to help ensure they have the justice they deserve" my ass! Lying sack of crap!

did i mis-read that?

www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/06/rep-todd-akin-refuses-to-apologize-for-saying-liberals-hate-god/

He is an asshole and every joke the Republican Party has turned itself into.

May be the most frightening part of this whole thing.

Whaaaaaaaat

(insert that one scene from Scanners here)

And that they can shake it and all the crazy things they say and do just miraculously disappear?

Nevermind it's not fact. But it does tell us something about HIM.

ReTodd Akin did not "misspeak." This rapist let his true beliefs slip out.

That he's an elected official is frightening. No person in his position should be stuck in medieval times. There's no excuse for it.

I doubt he misspoke. He was actually probably trying to show how really smart he is.
He really should resign his candidacy because this is really prime evidence of what the baggers think of women.

An article by Mark Halperin...that is all boo-hoo over how the Dems, etc. are going to attack Mr. Rape over this!

http://thepage.time.com/2012/08/19/what-happens-next-on-akin/

No shit Halperin! Idiot!

ALL of America should shout this creep down.

Ryan and Akin cosponsored a harsh harsh bill on the topic:

is basically chattel slavery. Doesn't matter how the pregnancy came about, but forcing women to bear the product of rape is especially disgusting.

And where did this guy learn Biology? Texas?

Thinking of it that way, it sounds eerily like the witch trials... "Toss her in the pond, if she drowns, she's not a witch, if she floats then she's a witch so burn her at the stake."

Lose-lose.

Scary stuff.

What a demeaning and self-serving attitude toward women. It's hard to even imagine this line of thinking still exists in this day and age.

He's 65. He should retire from his house seat ASAP and stay on the ballot to get defeated in his Senate race.

These people want to control women's reproductive systems and they dont even know how they function???

They also want to control the EPA, but they dont know how science works.

They want to control _________, but are dumb as a stump.

Someone like Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews.

Does anyone know if that is true?

And he didn't even retract his weird statement that women can somehow will that they not become pregnant from rape. My guess is that that is a core belief that he let slip and now he wants to put it back in the bottle but then by doubling down against women who have been raped by denying the morning after pill to those women reinforces the perception that he must believe that there is a magical, natural morning after pill that prevents pregnancy. Can you get more bat-sh#t crazy than that?

you scum

In paragraph 3 he talks of "Democratic" leaders. This asshat would have definitely used "Democrat" leaders. Fuck him. His ass needs to stay on the ballot as an example of what the Republican Party stands for!

What did he think, there's some sperm zapper in there or something?

Literally.

The "mispoke" excuse doesn't work.

There is no medical/scientific backing to what you said/believe. You only backed off it when there was heated response.

I am a rape survivor. I am thankful I did not face a pregnancy from the rape, or worse face a pregnancy in a place where folks like you dictate that I would have had to spend every day after the rape, once the pregnancy was known reliving the rape. I am thankful that I did not have a child for whom I might have very mixed emotions given the violence through which she/he was conceived.

I have great sympathy for those women (and there are many) who have had to live that nightmare. As if the life-altering nightmare of the rape wasn't enough.

The "I mispoke" suggests that you are feeling sorry for yourself per the heat you have taken for your candid reflection of your misogynist beliefs. Whatever dude, the upset you feel is nothing compared to the person who has been raped.

I doubt your entitled mindset will allow you to realize that your contempt for women is now met squarely with contempt for you.

I'm sure it did no good with respect to him and his Neanderthal views, but damn, did it feel good. And I carbon copied two women I know that are right-leaning voters. One has already contacted me to ask about it, she had no idea what was going on. When I explained it to her she was horrified. I'm sure we added one to the rolls. Some good can come out of this.