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Related: About this forumLatest GOP shocking rape gaffe
A California GOP leader says rape rarely leads to pregnancy
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
Another day, another Republican making an ill-advised comment about rape. Celeste Greig, the head of the largest GOP volunteer organization in California Ronald Reagan once called the California Republican Assembly the conscience of the Republican Party told the Woodland, California Daily Democrat that rape almost never leads to pregnancies because the body is too traumatized.
Granted, the percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because its an act of violence, because the body is traumatized. I dont know what percentage of pregnancies are due to the violence of rape. Because of the trauma the body goes through, she told the newspaper before arriving at the state GOPs spring convention in Sacramento.
Ironically, she got on the subject while criticizing Rep. Todd Akin, the former Missouri Senate candidate who infamously said womens bodies have a way of shutting down pregnancies in the case of legitimate rape. That was an insensitive remark, Greig said. Im sure he regretted it. He should have come back and apologized. Greig, however, went on to essentially reaffirm part of Akins logic.
Some studies have found that women are actually more likely to get pregnant from rape, because contraception is often not used, while others have found the rate is similar to that of consensual sex. In any case, pregnancy from rape is very very real.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/03/02/another_goper_has_a_todd_akin_moment/
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Latest GOP shocking rape gaffe (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2013
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CurtEastPoint
(18,552 posts)1. Here's the mirthful Celeste sucking up to Rooobeyo.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. Twiddle dee and twiddle dum
unionthug777
(740 posts)3. perhaps...
tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber?
libodem
(19,288 posts)4. Teh Stoopid
It burns. Ahhhhgggghhh.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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