{"id":29909,"date":"2012-08-20T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/because-theres-rape-and-then-theres-real-rape.html"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:05:25","slug":"because-theres-rape-and-then-theres-real-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/because-theres-rape-and-then-theres-real-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"Because there&#39;s &quot;rape&quot; and then there&#39;s &quot;real rape&quot;,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Because there&#39;s &quot;rape&quot; and then there&#39;s &quot;real rape&quot;, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Akin apparently isn&#39;t alone in thinking that &quot;secret secretions&quot; will keep a &quot;legitimate&quot; rape victim from getting pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>And the more people who say it, the more people will believe it.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theatlantic.com%2Fstatic%2Fmt%2Fassets%2Fpolitics%2Ftoddakin.thumb.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/08\/a-canard-that-will-not-die-legitimate-rape-doesnt-cause-pregnancy\/261303\/'>A Canard That Will Not Die: &#39;Legitimate Rape&#39; Doesn&#39;t Cause Pregnancy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRepublicans have been getting in trouble for asserting this since at least 1988 &#8212; but anti-abortion politicians keep hauling out this old chestnut for a reason.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/DjY312RnPuY' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because there&#39;s &quot;rape&quot; and then there&#39;s &quot;real rape&quot;, right? Rep. Akin apparently isn&#39;t alone in thinking that &quot;secret secretions&quot; will keep a &quot;legitimate&quot; rape victim from getting pregnant. And the more people who say it, the more people will believe it. Embedded Link A Canard That Will Not Die: &#39;Legitimate Rape&#39; Doesn&#39;t Cause Pregnancy Republicans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/because-theres-rape-and-then-theres-real-rape.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because there&#39;s &quot;rape&quot; and then there&#39;s &quot;real rape&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-29909","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":29908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape.html","url_meta":{"origin":29909,"position":0},"title":"Shifting the Overton Window on rape","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Aug-12 6:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, it's all \"Look at that crazy Republican extremist and his bizarro attitudes\" today ... and then \"There's certainly room for discussion on the matter in a democracy\" tomorrow ... followed by ... 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