Missouri Republican Thinks Trauma Is A Form Of Birth Control

Republicans keep getting more and more inane all the time. This just in: Todd Akin, R-Missouri, thinks that it is not ever necessary for a pregnant woman to undergo a dilation and cutterage, except possibly in the case of rape, but since he feels that the trauma of what he has termed a "legitimate rape" (what the hell would that be, Akin?) is some sort of a barrier against either ovulation or fertilization, (he wasn't clear about this) such a procedure should not be available at all. So....according to Akin, an unfertilized egg "knows" which haploid cells belong to someone whose company the mother sought, as opposed to someone who forced himself on the mother, and will therefore not allow themselves to become fertilized by the sperm of someone the mother does not like. That's very interesting; also NOT what they were teaching back in the dark ages, when I took bio 101. Geesh. I am waiting for someone to fact check Akin with stats from the Amercian Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology, which estimates that the percentage of rape induced pregnancies of women between the ages of twelve and forty-five is about five percent. So much for fear and terror being a reliable form of contraception. I suppose he would explain incest resulting in pregnancy, or the rapes of female prisoners of war, as "not really rape", as long as the victims became pregnant! While it is insulting enough to have a man tell all American women that sexual assualt is not really sexual assualt if it results in pregnancy, ( I can just hear defense attorneys using this as a defense...."it couldn't possibly have been rape, your honor....she got pregnant!") is this creep thinking about rewriting the laws concerning sex crimes? Don't get your representatives at Walmart.