Republican Todd Akin

Maybe next he will say all a woman has to do to stop rape happening to her  is "Just Say No".....

He's your politician, over here in Canada he would be GONE

I, for one, could not believe that he not only said it, but that stupid ass ex governor of AR backed him up.   He is confusing women with ducks.  True, Ducks can block sperm so that when they are raped by multiple male ducks, they can close off their uterus so that the sperm cannot get in to the right track.  But, ducks are ducks and we aren't ducks.  Also, he is implying that women do not really get raped. 

I wrote an answer to you and it just disappeared into cyberspace....my comment  was in reaction to your last one about " he is implying that women do not really get raped" ( assigning blame to women...that old chestnut?)...

Your comment made me think of a saying I heard way back in university:  "Confucius say when rape inevitable, just lie back and enjoy..." 

I really hope he gets removed, his comments are so disrespectful of women and show a mindset not suitable for our century or even last century!!!. His backpedaling and fawning apologies just don't cut it.

It really makes me think that one of their brain cells is dead and the other one got stepped on and  squished..

The scary thing is the VP candidate agrees with this guy in many ways; they cosponsored an anti-abortion bill. I guess he thinks a woman who is being raped can just clamp her vagina shut and not let the sperm in, like putting some giant condom over it. What an idiot! And the thing is, there are some ultra conservatives who agree with this guy.

It's funny (not ha-ha, but peculiar) ... when I was editing the story on him last night, we have an online program that spell checks and checks for grammar and Associated Press style, etc., ... well, everytime "forcible rape" came up, it stopped and wanted to change it to just "rape" ... but I couldn't because that was the quote. Because we all know that "forcible rape" is just rape ... all rape is forced. There is no other kind. Rape is rape.

Worrisome isn't it, shows women haven't really progressed as much as we thought over the centuries and some influential men including politicians ( and not just ultra-conservatives I bet!) still think in medieval mindsets when all women were considered ****s and begging for it....The distinction between " forcible rape" and "rape" is as you say non-existent...

It saddens me beyond words to know that men, men who make laws, still think that unless a woman is beaten to the inch of her life, she has not been raped.   Plus, to think that a woman who is raped cannot get pregnant speaks to his lack of understanding of both biology and anatomy.  I do not think that any man has the right to comment on matters of the vagina, uterus, or ovaries.  If you don't have them, stay the hell out of mine...

And the really sad thing is that there are women who back this man.  Honestly, there are women who actually vote for the men who want to control our uteri.  How can that be?