{"id":29905,"date":"2012-08-19T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/well-glad-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-pregnancies-from-legitimate.html"},"modified":"2012-08-19T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:54:53","slug":"well-glad-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-pregnancies-from-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/well-glad-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-pregnancies-from-legitimate.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, glad we don&#39;t have to worry about pregnancies from &quot;legitimate&quot;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Well, glad we don&#39;t have to worry about pregnancies from &quot;legitimate&quot; rape<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Or so claims Todd Akin, GOP Representative of Missouri, and candidate for Senate in that state. \u00a0Because, of course, in &quot;legitimate&quot; rape (as opposed to rapes that are, one assumes, &quot;illegitimate&quot; or not really rapes, because, y&#39;know, so many women who cry rape are just trying to get back at those guys, y&#39;know what mean?), God has granted women&#39;s bodies the ability to &quot;shut down&quot; and prevent pregnancy from happening. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Except, apparently, in some rare cases where that doesn&#39;t happen, in which case we shouldn&#39;t punish &quot;the child&quot;, just the rapist.<\/p>\n<p>As polls analyst Nate Silver put it in a tweet (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fivethirtyeight\/statuses\/237263430216712192\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/fivethirtyeight\/statuses\/237263430216712192<\/a>), &quot;Is it possible to win a Senate race with 0% of the women&#39;s vote? Asking for a friend.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I will say that I&#39;ve often felt that folks who feel strongly that abortion is the killing of an innocent life should not agree to an exception for rape or incest because it begs the issue of an innocent life being involved. Akin is at least consistent in that aspect, even if he has a very odd understanding of female physiology.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yKa5CY-KOHc?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cnAydkbFLPK' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, glad we don&#39;t have to worry about pregnancies from &quot;legitimate&quot; rape Or so claims Todd Akin, GOP Representative of Missouri, and candidate for Senate in that state. \u00a0Because, of course, in &quot;legitimate&quot; rape (as opposed to rapes that are, one assumes, &quot;illegitimate&quot; or not really rapes, because, y&#39;know, so many women who cry rape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/well-glad-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-pregnancies-from-legitimate.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well, glad we don&#39;t have to worry about pregnancies from &quot;legitimate&quot;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29985,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/rape-pregancies-out-of-wedlock-pregnancies-whats-the-diff.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":0},"title":"Rape Pregancies, Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancies, what&#39;s the diff?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Aug-12 6:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, at least, what's the diff \"for the father\"? \u00a0Because, I guess, that makes them the same. Because guys who knock up your daughter are kind of like rapists? \u00a0Or because rapists have fatherly feelings, too? \u00a0Or ...Um ... what the hell?Here to explain, is Tom Smith, GOP candidate for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2F092611_tomsmith_768-225x300.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/scott-walker-deeply-understands-what-raped-women-think-about.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":1},"title":"Scott Walker deeply understands what raped women think about","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Jun-15 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is why there doesn't need to be a rape or incest exception to Wisconsin's coming anti-abortion bill because, hey, women really only worry about the cause of the pregnancy in the first few months, so if the no-exceptions line is drawn at 20 weeks, who's going to be concerned?Thank\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43299,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/todd-akin-strikes-back.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":2},"title":"Todd Akin Strikes Back!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Jun-14 2:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And he still has that Manichaean, black-and-white world of convenient absolutes. E.g., because there have been occasional cases of women falsely claiming rape (\"entrapping men\" as they used to call it) therefore any claim of rape is suspect, because, y'know, scarlet women! And because, yes, long term stress makes conception\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31103,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/a-direct-appeal-for-politics-over-principle.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":3},"title":"A direct appeal for politics over principle","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Nov-12 1:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. Here's the argument, right from the ad:\"You don\u2019t have to agree with everything he says, but you can be sure, in the Senate, Akin will vote for Romney\u2019s policies.\"In case anyone wondered whether the RNC and the NRSC initially abandoned Akin, not because they found his \"Legitimate Rape\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/gop-holds-its-nose-in-order-to-try-an-win-a-senate-majority.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":4},"title":"GOP holds its nose in order to try an win a Senate majority","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Sep-12 9:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which makes one wonder how much all that rapid distancing from Akin back in his \"legitimate rape\" days was because of moral repugnance, and how much was because they thought he couldn't win. \u00a0Regardless, now that they're stuck with him, the GOP is backing him in order to win a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/battling-against-unit-cohesion-in-the-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":29905,"position":5},"title":"Battling against unit cohesion in the military","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Dec-12 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Todd Akin managed to get the House to include an amendment to the 2013 Defense budget immunizing soldiers from being disciplined based on their religious beliefs \"concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression of human sexuality.\"Which, in protection of their beliefs is fine (though I'm not aware of any cases where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}