Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Todd Akin is not alone in his beliefs.
More than a few members of the Right To Own Women faction of the Republican/Teabagger Party have said equally appalling statements about rape and women. AlterNet has a list of 8 of the worst, in case you have forgotten just how reprehensible Republican/Teabaggers can be.
1. Other absurd Republican contributions to the “rape doesn’t lead to babies” myth. As Anna North reported earlier this year, other Republicans paved the way for Akin’s recent statements. In 1995, Republican Henry Aldridge stated that when a woman is raped, “the juices don’t flow,” and in 1988 another Republican congressman stated that women emit “a certain secretion” that stops pregnancy when they are raped. (Which has led many of us to wonder, which is it, guys? Do these mythical juices flow, or do they stop flowing, when a woman is raped?)Yup! These people ARE that bad.
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