Let’s take a look at what Todd Akins said:
Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim.
“Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,” Akin said. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.” [emphasis mine]
Okay… deep breath. Let’s break this down.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
I’ve really become tired with the Republican Madonna/whore standard, and that’s exactly what Akins is saying here. Women who are “legitimately” raped don’t become pregnant. Women who claim they were raped and did become pregnant are pretty much liars who probably enjoyed it/were asking for it because… “the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”
Is he claiming that women produce a super-secret spermicide that self-triggers in times of crisis? Akins is saying that women who are really raped don’t get pregnant because they’re good girls. He then goes on to say:
“Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,”
Love that assume. He’s using this word because he doesn’t believe that women who are “legitimately” raped will become pregnant.
“I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
This statement couldn’t be clearer. Akins doesn’t support abortion in the cases of rape because… women who are “legitimately” raped will not become pregnant… because the bodies of women who are “legitimately” raped secrete a special spermicide that prevents pregnancy.
Akins didn’t misspeak (That’s what he’s now claiming). Not one little bit. You can find his “science” at many “pro-life” sites. Remember, Akins belongs to a party that attempted to change the definition of rape last year. Then they were calling it “forcible” rape. Akins simply changed “forcible” to “legitimate.”