US Republican ignorant of female biology. Again.

It just gets more and more unbelievable tbh - how they manage to get to these positions of responsibility and still think this way!

Here's another jaw dropper.

thinkprogress.org/health/issue/

What's with the 'forcible' rape shit again? Gah it's so depressing. Can someone please explain to me what non-forcible rape is?

Ach, shite link

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/gop-platform-abortion_n_1815021.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

He's only repeating what the party leaders actually want - an end to all abortions in the US. From all I have read about it, there is an exemption for rape victims, but only if they can prove they were raped

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/gop-platform-abortion_n_1815021.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Utter scum.

sorry
www.theonion.com/articles/pregnant-woman-relieved-to-learn-her-rape-was-ille,29258/?ref=auto

Some good news!
www.theonion.com/articles/pregnant-woman-relieved-to-learn-her-rape-was-ille,29258/?ref=auto

alex.
well that's ok then. Who cares about the incubator anyway..

this just keeps getting better and better

If that's true, StormGlass, it's particularly weird given that many women don't have vaginal orgasms at all.

I have read a couple of pieces of research (neither of which I can remember the authors of), one saying that women were slightly more likely to get pregnant after rape than after normal intercourse and the other slightly less. So I had assumed he had read the latter research and massively over-extrapolated. I don't think he's going to explain the source of his beliefs, so we shall never know!

The USA is basically going back to the Dark Ages as fast as possible. This particular horrible fuckwitted man is one of many. Don't forget his little mates want women who miscarry to be charged with murder and given the death penalty if found guilty, and the word 'victim' to be removed from legal use in cases of rape and DV only - the word 'accuser' must be used instead.

IIRC, in the middle ages (when people really didn't know anything much about internal female biology), medieval medicine taught that women could only get pregnant if they had an orgasm. Maybe because a man needs an orgasm to produce sperm, so they thought it must be similar for a woman. So, in the middle ages, if a rape victim became pregnant, a lot of people would assume that it wasn't possible for her to have been raped.

So maybe Todd Akin has come across this medieval belief, which has now been proved to be wrong, and is willfully ignoring all the knowledge that has been gained since then about how reproduction actually works.

How someone so ignorant about basic biology has managed to get onto a committee on science (which has jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research and development in the USA) is mind boggling.

But they do have a lot of control over their bodies
Hence being able to understand they were pregnant and, like, put a stop to it
Or summat

Can there be any other explanation?

Can a grown man in a Western civilisation, with free universal education, and who holds a position of some power, REALLY BELIEVE that women can put a stop to unwanted pregnancies just by sort of shutting it down somehow inside? I mean WTAF?!!!

I know EXACTLY what has happened here
He has been watching too much sci-fi
And has mistaken women for vulcans, or summat

What a terrifying bastard that man is

I think what's particularly galling (pun intended) is that if these were female politicians coming out with similar utter shite on another subject, t'internet would be full of 'irrational females, emotional kneejerk reaction' etc etc. Yet these two, whilst being widely condemned for their ludicrous 'opinions' are not also being pilloried for being unable to string a coherent argument together. The utter randomness of their thought processes makes them unfit for public office, even if what they were spouting today was not massively offensive.

Both these men make me want to shriek. That they're both politicians as well as utter, utter fuckwits is the most depressing thing I think. Ugh. Just, ugh.

George seems a bit confused. He seems to be saying he doesn't believe the women who have accused Assange, but in fact does believe that Assange had sex with Woman A when she was asleep. So does believe her, just doesn't believe it was rape. Only then he goes on to say he doesn't believe her. In which case why make up a piss-poor 'legitimate rape' myth about how, if it had had happened - which it didn't but if it had - it wouldn't have been rape anyway.

If he doesn't believe the allegations - fine, he can say so although I can't see any reason why he needs to say so publicly. If he believes having sex with someone who is asleep isn't rape, he can say so - but he would be wrong.

Fortunately by being unable to articulate either of these two opinions coherently he has succeeded in making himself look like a giant turd.

bloody hell, you couldn't make this up, could you? how do these massive bell ends get elected?

(I am still utterly confused by the Assange case - I cannot for a second comprehend why Ecuador thought their actions were right.)

Clearly, all us women are just Witches...and it's witchy magic that men don't understand.