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Todd Akin: Legitimate Rape

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volvotom
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You bet the McCaskill campaign is laughing in excitement at this
Aug 20 2012 12:28AM
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theabortionator
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So we're going to discuss this I guess?


inb4 shitstorm unrelated to topic
Aug 20 2012 12:34AM
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volvotom
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What should have been an easy Republican pick-up now seems safe Dem.


Aug 20 2012 1:04AM
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Amadeus.
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This country is going down down down.
Aug 20 2012 11:22AM
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Mr.Sloth
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Wut can someone explain
Aug 20 2012 11:31AM
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Dragonite.
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Agreed.
Aug 20 2012 11:51AM
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iRapeKittens
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Fucking politicians
Aug 20 2012 11:54AM
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volvotom
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While being interviewed by a local media outlet in Missouri, the republican candidate for senate said:

From Politico

"In an interview with a local Fox outlet, Akin suggested that the female body has a mechanism to prevent conception after rape.

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” the six-term congressman from Missouri said on Sunday, before backtracking somewhat by saying he “misspoke.”

What should have been a very easy Republican pick-up seat is now surely safely Democratic.


Aug 20 2012 1:20PM
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volvotom
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Aug 20 2012 1:22PM
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volvotom
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watch the video, the guy actually tried to say that the female body has a way of preventing "legitimate rape"

what's even funnier is he is on the House committee on Science and Technology
Aug 20 2012 1:27PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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neither part of that is true
Aug 20 2012 1:30PM
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charmander
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I think it's clear what he meant, that pregnancies in the event of rape are fairly rare.

Aug 20 2012 1:50PM
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BlackCupid
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That's not true at all, but okay.
Aug 20 2012 1:57PM
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Phil-X-
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And our vice president biden said Romeny is "gonna put you people back in chains."
People make mistakes, were only human. Grow up.


What he was saying makes sense too, not sure why people are freaking out, in the case of legitimate rape peoples body will prevent itself from getting pregnant. So when someone is legitimately raped, they most likely will not get pregnant. Versus if someone claims to have been raped (but there was consent) and might get pregnant they were not legitimately raped.

I guess I dont really understand what was wrong with his comment, seems legit to me.
Aug 20 2012 2:04PM
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corona
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yea, cause there are little signs in a girls fallopian tubes that say 'parties off' so the sperm know things aren't cool.
Aug 20 2012 2:12PM
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Phil-X-
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Did I say that? I was clarifying the words he said. He said he misspoke, All I did was clarify his original words in my own interpretation.

Aug 20 2012 2:23PM
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corona
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sure seems like you believe what he said.
Aug 20 2012 2:29PM
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volvotom
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Excuse my hyperbole. What was going to be a very close contest and leaning republican is now likely to flop and lean more dem.

He really REALLY stepped on himself there, and it may be unrecoverable.
Aug 20 2012 2:37PM
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95959
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All of it, all of it was wrong.

Love all the conservatives running with this,
"uhhhh yeah.. He's right, despite the fact there is no biological evidence to support anything that he said, and in fact there are many studies that prove him wrong, we're sure that Akin knows something that medical professionals don't about the female reproductive system."

fucking #GOPlogic
Aug 20 2012 2:39PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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it happens 32,000 times a year. this is the epitome of whats wrong with society in general, people with incorrect preconcieved notions or dispositions that they cling to blindly because they are too lazy to even the slightest bit of research or implore even the slightest bit of logic or rational thinking still get an equal vote. fucking loser.
Aug 20 2012 2:52PM
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Phil-X-
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Out of 683,000 rapes each year.... So what is that? 4% of rape victims? Thats a pretty small percentage.
Aug 20 2012 3:02PM
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Phil-X-
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Did you read the way I understood what he said? Cause Im not saying anything of what you just called me out for
Aug 20 2012 3:06PM
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95959
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Yes, you said that what he said kinda makes sense.

I'm not really calling you out, more calling out that horribly in-accurate statement he made.
Aug 20 2012 3:09PM
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Phil-X-
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From my interpretation.
Aug 20 2012 3:09PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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troll
Aug 20 2012 3:50PM
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Phil-X-
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Nah, just a statistic. Im not saying rape isnt horrible and ruins lives. Im just showing its unfair to post one side of a number. Trust me, I think rape is the worst thing ever, legitimately ruins lives. Playin devils advocate tho
Aug 20 2012 3:53PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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your numbers are wrong and thinking that the percentage is meaningful points to a deeper misunderstanding of math
Aug 20 2012 3:57PM
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Mr.Sloth
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Please stop. No, I insist.
Aug 20 2012 4:02PM
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Phil-X-
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http://www.crimevictimservices.org/page/sexassault/76

http://www.paralumun.com/issuesrapestats.htm

You were saying?
Aug 20 2012 4:03PM
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volvotom
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He has until tomorrow at 5pm to drop out and be replaced, otherwise he remains on the ballot. NRSC states they will pull funding if he stays in. I suppose we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Aug 20 2012 4:04PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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idk what those links are but 4% of 683,000 is not 32,000. troll
Aug 20 2012 4:31PM
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Phil-X-
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Are you fucking kidding me?

Given / Total x 100 = Percentage

32,000/683,000=0.04685212298

0.04685212298 x 100 = 4.68


and if thats not enough for you-


http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+percentage+of+683%2C000+is+32%2C000


https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFA_enUS485US485&sugexp=chrome,mod=14&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=32%2C000%2F683%2C000#hl=en&sugexp=les%3Bcghsbq&gs_nf=1&gs_mss=what%20is%2004685212298%20percent%20of%20683%2C000&tok=KXx6A0eiAxkqIOlm81Lanw&pq=what%20is%204.6852%20percent%20of%20683%2C000&cp=10&gs_id=4q&xhr=t&q=what+is+4.685212298+percent+of+683,000&pf=p&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHFA_enUS485US485&sclient=psy-ab&oq=what+is+4.685212298+percent+of+683,000&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=66a4114761f62281&biw=960&bih=981

Aug 20 2012 4:40PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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no Im not kidding you. the percentage is meaningless to begin with which is your first problem. your second problem came from either a) an inability to do the simple calculation or b) more likely you realllly think that single digit percentage is important so you incorrectly rounded down to bolster your case. if you were on the other end you would be rounding 32,000 pregnancies up to 40,000. so call it devils advocate or whatever but you're just trolling on a really low level
Aug 20 2012 4:48PM
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volvotom
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percentage pregnant means nothing in relation to a control variable such as non-rape pregnancies for the same amount of penetrations. 4%, 4.68% or whatever bear little resemblance to his statement that there are "legitimate" rapes which insinuates that there are illegitimate rapes. Which also relates to the term "forceful" rape which ended up in some (albeit DOA in the Senate) abortion bill that the House passed
Aug 20 2012 5:08PM
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ForeverYung
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He is such a funky idiot, he also said something along the lines of we should punish the rapist not the child
Aug 20 2012 6:08PM
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ForeverYung
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Fucking**
Aug 20 2012 6:09PM
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ironic
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Some people should not have children.. I'm starting to think that his mom is one of those people.
Aug 20 2012 7:39PM
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TNORTS
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pretty sure ducks can actually expel sperm if they are raped. Maybe he was talking about ducks.
Aug 20 2012 8:04PM
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klayer_9
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really?
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Aug 20 2012 8:41PM
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BlackCupid
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I can never believe how stupid you are. If you didn't have the KU icon, I'd assume you were just a troll.
Aug 20 2012 9:07PM
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BlackCupid
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He never said it does.
Aug 20 2012 9:08PM
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jibjunkie
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Aug 20 2012 9:10PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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are you the english major from the penn state thread? I wouldn't expect you to understand anything I said in here.
Aug 20 2012 9:20PM
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hey-dude-its-me
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direct quote: If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.



Aug 20 2012 9:21PM
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Bogs
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you guys defending Akin/each other are just trolling, right? i mean, come on. y'alls are smarter than that, right?
Aug 21 2012 6:09PM
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