Raw Story: GOP Senate nominee: Women don’t get pregnant from ‘legitimate’ rapes

[The Evil Genius]

Glad GOP leaders called him out on this. Don't know if this is the moment the all wake up, but it's good to know the GOP does have a line when it comes to these issues...

It's a major election year.

Had this happened last year, nothing would have come of it from the GOP (other than an admonishment and then overwhelming defense and blame on the liberal media by the GOP).

[twa]

We get it twa, you want to deny an abortion to the victims of rape, but the idiot DID say that a woman's body shuts down the process during legitimate rape...i.e. women don't get pregnant from rape. Seriously, you can defend your position on abortion without having to defend this moron.

The word TRYS was in there

I want people to make informed choices in irreversible matters

[Larry]

Glad GOP leaders called him out on this. Don't know if this is the moment the all wake up, but it's good to know the GOP does have a line when it comes to these issues...

GOP leaders came out against him because they figured that it might cost them a seat.

They will have no problem at all, replacing him with someone who has sworn to legislate exactly the same as this guy, but who hasn't said so quite so clearly.

[Kilmer17]

GOP leaders came out against him because they figured that it might cost them a seat.

They will have no problem at all, replacing him with someone who has sworn to legislate exactly the same as this guy, but who hasn't said so quite so clearly.

I think that's a biot harsh even from you two guys.

Damned if you do sort of thing.

I think the GOPers who took him to task did so because they believed what he said was aweful.

[Riggo-toni]

if this were true, the population of Eagles fans would have dwindled to near extinction a decade ago.

[The Evil Genius]

I think that's a biot harsh even from you two guys.

Damned if you do sort of thing.

I think the GOPers who took him to task did so because they believed what he said was aweful.

Perhaps. But it's not like he had a history of distasteful comments and the GOP did nothing.

Oh wait.

Nevermind.

The student loan program is a "stage-three cancer of socialism."

Liberalism comes from "a hatred of God."

The Bible should be the "blueprint" for American government.

Obama should be impeached as "a complete menace to our civilization."

[JMS]

It's a major election year.

Had this happened last year, nothing would have come of it from the GOP (other than an admonishment and then overwhelming defense and blame on the liberal media by the GOP).

I think you are entirely wrong on this. The GOP reaction here has more to do with the fact that Paul Ryan co sponsored the change to the Hyde Amendment with this numb nuts than the mere fact that this is an election year. The last thing Romney needs is something like this energizing the Democratic base.. In a normal election year the Presidential candidate would merely say something like I don't agree with that, not cut off his funding or try to get him to drop out of the race... Fact of the matter is there are about 200 GOP congressmen in office who agree with this turkey and cosponsored the bill this guy was trying to defend.

[AsburySkinsFan]

The word TRYS was in there

I want people to make informed choices in irreversible matters

The female body has NO reproductive defensive mechanism in the case of rape!

[twa]

The female body has NO reproductive defensive mechanism in the case of rape!

The female body does not get pregnant as easy under stress,it also affects the rate of miscarriages.....call it what you wish

I do agree it is foolish to label it as a rape defense.....about as foolish as the clump of cells meme.

[Going Commando]

if this were true, the population of Eagles fans would have dwindled to near extinction a decade ago.

I don't know about that one.

[AsburySkinsFan]

The female body does not get pregnant as easy under stress,it also affects the rate of miscarriages.....call it what you wish

Which can be said for working mothers too, the body doesn't defend against rape.

Look, I know you've backed yourself into a corner in defending this idiot, but there is no need for you to continue to defend the indefensible.

[LadySkinsFan]

Men have no business legislating anything about women's health, period. I am so sick of this patriarchal BS under the guise of some religious precepts of sanctity of human life and the like. If that were true, then there would be no death penalty, no wars and no killing of any kind.

We women will not cede control over our bodies again. And the poor women who vote against themselves, their daughters, their granddaughters, nieces, aunts, and so on to support this patriarchal BS are to be pitied because they are just buying into their enslavement.

When women do not even have the right to control their own bodies, they are enslaved to ideological BS. And that's a fact.

[Predicto]

The female body does not get pregnant as easy under stress,it also affects the rate of miscarriages.....call it what you wish

I do agree it is foolish to label it as a rape defense.....about as foolish as the clump of cells meme.

Err....

Insult to Injury.

A single act of rape may be more than twice as likely to make a woman pregnant as a single act of consensual sex....

The Gottschalls focused on 405 women who had suffered a single incidence of penile-vaginal rape at some point between the ages of 12 and 45. Of these, 6.4 per cent became pregnant. But that figure jumped to nearly eight per cent when the researchers allowed for the women who'd been using birth control - US government statistics show that one in five of the women in the sample were likely to have been using the pill or an IUD.

To complete the comparison, the Gottschalls needed to know how many women in that age group get pregnant from one-night stands and other one-off acts of consensual sex. The answer - reported this year in a separate study by Allen Wilcox, head of the epidemiology branch of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - was a mere 3.1 per cent.

"It was surprising to see this margin of difference," says Jon Gottschall. Crucially, he believes the difference cannot be explained away by the argument that women having regular consensual sex are, on average, more likely to be using contraception than rape victims.

"All the women in Wilcox's study were trying to get pregnant, and not taking precautions," he says. A more likely interpretation, say the Gottschalls, is that rape really does result in more pregnancies.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn907-insult-to-injury.html

Did you go to the Todd Akin school of medicine?

Seriously, how long are you going to fight this rearguard action? We understand that you are opposed to abortion. That's fine. But everything you have said to defend this clown or to deflect the discussion has fallen with a thud.

[KCClybun]

The female body does not get pregnant as easy under stress,it also affects the rate of miscarriages.....call it what you wish

....**** like this is why Texas has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country and they have women fleeing over the border to get abortion medications.

Everything is bigger in Texas. Even the stupidity.

[RichmondRedskin88]

So wait did I read this wrong above or did that say rape is more likely to cause pregnancy than consensual? I'm confused.

[AsburySkinsFan]

So wait did I read this wrong above or did that say rape is more likely to cause pregnancy than consensual? I'm confused.

twa is searching the interwebs for some shred of evidence no matter how thin to lay in front of us to prove us all wrong.

[LadySkinsFan]

Here's a statistic for ya. If a lesbian gets raped, she has greater odds of getting pregnant because most lesbians aren't on birth control unless prescribed for other reasons. We don't need to take birth control to control pregnancy. Yet, lesbians get raped too, mostly because it will cause her to go straight, at least in the addled brain of some rapists who have it in for lesbians. Yeah, like a violent act of rape will make a lesbian see the light about how wonderful heterosexual sex is.

[Predicto]

Whoever took this photo must be laughing his azz off today...

[mcsluggo]

He should withdraw. And move to China. He is a moron, and anyone attempting to defend him has to be doing some serious mental gymnastics.

And for the record, here is how every GOP candidate should answer ANY question on abortion: "While I do not personally agree with the courts position on abortion, I am committed to upholding established law and will do everything in my power to ensure that my office acts accordingly. Sometimes personal feelings and convictions have to take a backseat for the sake of the locale/state/nation. When I entered this race I was fully aware of the established laws on this topic and even though my personal feelings/convictions run contrary to these laws, I am committed to improving my locale/state/nation and will work to do so in other areas."

It really isn't that difficult. Roe-v-Wade ain't going away. And to be honest, the GOP doesn't want it to. As long as it is there, they can campaign on "overturning this judicial overstep", knowing full well they will never even think about doing so once in office.

that sounds exacly like what tim kaine stated on capital punishment...

convictions are good.

however, consessions to reality and functionality are not not mutually exclusive with convictions.

[RichmondRedskin88]

Here's a statistic for ya. If a lesbian gets raped, she has greater odds of getting pregnant because most lesbians aren't on birth control unless prescribed for other reasons. We don't need to take birth control to control pregnancy. Yet, lesbians get raped too, mostly because it will cause her to go straight, at least in the addled brain of some rapists who have it in for lesbians. Yeah, like a violent act of rape will make a lesbian see the light about how wonderful heterosexual sex is.

You know i was gonna ask what happens with the setup as far as their lesbian life partner and the rapist(if he gets rights to the child) if the lesbian gets pregnant but im not even gonna touch that.

[The Evil Genius]

[twa]

twa is searching the interwebs for some shred of evidence no matter how thin to lay in front of us to prove us all wrong.

Don't need to....ask any reputable physician if what I said was true

or google stress +conception

[Unforgiven]

Don't need to....ask any reputable physician if what I said was true

or google stress +conception

You're talking about stress causing health problems, which is perfectly valid. The problem with your argument is that argument is generally based on long term stress. It's not like flipping a light switch where the instant a rape begins the body jumps into the state of someone who has been stressed out for months on end for various reasons.

If you're going to try and use that argument you need to back it up scientifically, you can't just throw out the stress argument and walk away like you have really proven any thing.

You've lost this argument so many times over but out of stubbornness and ignorance you soldier on.

[twa]

You're talking about stress causing health problems, which is perfectly valid. The problem with your argument is that argument is generally based on long term stress. It's not like flipping a light switch where the instant a rape begins the body jumps into the state of someone who has been stressed out for months on end for various reasons.

If you're going to try and use that argument you need to back it up scientifically, you can't just throw out the stress argument and walk away like you have really proven any thing.

You've lost this argument so many times over but out of stubbornness and ignorance you soldier on.

what argument?...there is no argument stress affects ovulation,conceiving and pregnancy

BOTH short and long term stress

https://www.google.com/search?q=effects+of+stress+on+ovulation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs

[Unforgiven]

what argument?...there is no argument stress affects ovulation,conceiving and pregnancy

BOTH short and long term stress

https://www.google.com/search?q=effects+of+stress+on+ovulation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs

Linking google searches is ridiculous, give a direct link to a study showing how much of an impact *acute* stress has on conception. Not someones opinion but actual facts.

Anyone knows that stress causes health problems but there is a big difference in acute and chronic stress and the impact it has on a person.