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Abortion and Rape

Richard31 Wrote: Aug 23, 2012 9:08 AM
Sigh. No matter what part of the world you came from, no matter whether you are from a long line of royalty living in palaces, or a long line of villagers squatting in grass huts - you have many, many rapists in your genetic family tree.

The criticisms of the recent absurd comments by Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin, who at this writing is his party's nominee to take on incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November in a contest he had been expected to win, have focused on his clearly erroneous understanding of the human female anatomy. In a now infamous statement, in which he used the bizarre and unheard-of phrase "legitimate rape," the congressman gave the impression that some rapes of women are not mentally or seriously resisted. This is an antediluvian and misogynistic myth for which there is no basis in fact and...

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