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Trigger warnings out the wazoo: rape, idiots trying to determine bodily autonomy for women, and general social justice enragement.

US Congressman: Rape Victims’ Bodies ‘Shut Down’ Pregnancies Automatically, No Need For Abortion

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Todd Akin, a Tea Party Republican six-term U.S. Congressman who is now running for the U.S. Senate from the state of Missouri, says that women’s bodies know if they are “legitimate rape” victims and automatically can just “shut down” a resulting unwanted pregnancy — so there’s no need to even discuss abortion in cases of rape.
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Of course, now he says he misspoke. I still wanna throttle him.
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Of course, now he says he misspoke. I still wanna throttle him.

 
You have to get in line behind the GOP members.

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Of course, now he says he misspoke. I still wanna throttle him.

I doubt he "misspoke". I suspect he said exactly what he believes. Reality must conform to ideology, you know, Remember Bush II and the "we make our own reality" nonsense.
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Trigger warnings out the wazoo: rape, idiots trying to determine bodily autonomy for women, and general social justice enragement.

US Congressman: Rape Victims’ Bodies ‘Shut Down’ Pregnancies Automatically, No Need For Abortion

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Lot of idiots running our country.

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US Congressman Todd Akin (R) Has Opinions About "Legitimate" Rape Victims
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Trigger warnings out the wazoo: rape, idiots trying to determine bodily autonomy for women, and general social justice enragement.

US Congressman: Rape Victims’ Bodies ‘Shut Down’ Pregnancies Automatically, No Need For Abortion

The first paragraph:

Tell that to my uterus, whose way of "shutting down" a rape pregnancy was an ectopic pregnancy that, without access to abortion, would have killed me.
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Tell that to my uterus, whose way of "shutting down" a rape pregnancy was an ectopic pregnancy that, without access to abortion, would have killed me.

 
*all the hugs*

You were one of the first TCers I thought about when I read this article - I didn't know about your abortion, but I knew you'd be pissed to hear this kind of crap coming out of anybody's mouth. It makes me want to find this guy and shake him.
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*all the hugs*

You were one of the first TCers I thought about when I read this article - I didn't know about your abortion, but I knew you'd be pissed to hear this kind of crap coming out of anybody's mouth. It makes me want to find this guy and shake him.

 
Shaking him isn't what I'd like to do to him. In the world he's proposing, I would be dead. There should be serious consequences for that; unfortunately, in a Tea Partier's world view, arguing against a woman's right to stay the fuck alive is a sure way to win an election.
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Of course, now he says he misspoke. I still wanna throttle him.


I wanna kick him in the nuts.  Shut down his sperm flow.
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I wanna kick him in the nuts.  Shut down his sperm flow.

 
Only if I get a turn too.
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Only if I get a turn too.

Ladies first.
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And my... um... slacks.

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I wanna kick him in the nuts.  Shut down his sperm flow.

 
Is that all you're going to do? :)
I'd like to introduce his genitals to the business end of a meat cleaver, personally.

Seriously though, I think these Republicans have their plumbing all messed up, they're not supposed to be crapping out their mouths like this!

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Is that all you're going to do? :)
Seriously though, I think these Republicans have their plumbing all messed up, they're not supposed to be crapping out their mouths like this!

 
That reminds me of the time I went to the school nurse for chest pains and she gave me Pepto-Bismol tablets. (I didn't die of an untreated heart attack so I guess it was just heartburn!) I was back at the nurse that morning because no one told me that a side effect of Pepto-Bismol was black stuff all over your tongue. All I could think about was that one House episode where the guy's digestive system reversed itself.

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Trigger warnings out the wazoo: rape, idiots trying to determine bodily autonomy for women, and general social justice enragement.

 
I keep hearing reputable news outlets talking about the Tea Party candidates in office and running as "Constitutional scholars".  Do they only teach one subject in school now?  Or has the definition of "scholarship" changed since I was a student?

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US Congressman Todd Akin (R) Has Opinions About "Legitimate" Rape Victims
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2012, 01:55:57 am »
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Is that all you're going to do? :)
I'd like to introduce his genitals to the business end of a meat cleaver, personally.

Seriously though, I think these Republicans have their plumbing all messed up, they're not supposed to be crapping out their mouths like this!

I'll get the knife sharpener!

What fucking rock did he crawl out from under, and how can we send him back?

(I'd say something about him experiencing "legitimate" rape, but I'd never get off the soapbox.)
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