Tag: Legitimate Rape

GOP Rape Sensitivity Training Program

Filed in National by on January 18, 2013 8 Comments

The Republican Party has sent itself to rape sensitivity school.

And it may have added new urgency to a training program that’s already being launched by an anti-abortion group — the Susan B. Anthony list — to keep candidates and lawmakers from continually making the same kind of comments that may have helped ruin Republicans’ chances of winning the Senate.

I agree the GOP needs a course in Rape Sensitivity, but that’s not what this course is shaping up to be.

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Todd Akin Isn’t Alone In His Rape Beliefs

Filed in National by on December 14, 2012 10 Comments

Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson: “I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something, If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case.

“That tells me that the victim in this case, although she wasn’t necessarily willing, she didn’t put up a fight.”

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