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Todd Akin isn't the only one saying stupid things about rape. "Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman
by aestra 13y ago
Todd Akin isn't the only one saying stupid things about rape.
"Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman secretes a certain secretion, which has a tendency to kill sperm." - Stephen F. Freind (Pennsylvania House of Representatives)
"In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out." - Jodie Laubenberg (Texas House of Representatives)
"I would hope that when a woman goes into a physician, with a rape issue, that that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage, or was it truly caused by a rape." — Chuck Winder (Idaho Senate)
"Well, bad weather is like rape: if it's inevitable, you might as well relax and enjoy it." — Clayton Williams (Texas Gubernatorial Candidate) (this comment was a "joke")
"Rape, ladies and gentlemen, is not today what rape was. Rape, when I was learning these things, was the violation of a chaste woman." - Douglas Henry (Tennessee State Senate)
"Concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami." - James Leon Holmes (Federal Judge)
"The facts show that people who are raped -- who are truly raped -- the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant" - Henry Aldridge (North Carolina House of Representatives)
- nsxwolf 13y agoI was taught the "rape prevents conception" myth in my liberal condoms-on-bananas high school health class, and I suspect others were too. I have no idea if it was part of the curriculum or just an off the cuff remark from a misinformed teacher, but the idea came from somewhere, and it can't be exclusive to Republican politicians. I really do suspect other people had been taught this, but pretended they'd never heard it so they could lash out with more righteous indignation and outrage, rather than accept some people honestly believe wrong things they were taught.