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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP translated: If a raped woman gets pregnant, she enjoyed herself!!
Isn't that what they mean?
This is stunning.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)That's what they mean!
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)she wasn't really raped enough so as to be bad or anything.
treestar
(82,383 posts)So that takes care of that. If she got pregnant, it must not be rape. If it had been rape, she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. How does anyone in 2012 still think things like this?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Once in a while one of them trips up and drops a clue to their utter, utter stupidity.
Quixote1818
(31,158 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,270 posts)and paint every GOP candidate as another potential Todd Akin I'll pluck my eyeballs out with a melon baller.
This is huge.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)amuse bouche
(3,672 posts)'Legitimate rape'. These people are disturbed
spooky3
(38,864 posts)that it is normal to force themselves on someone or manipulate someone who doesn't want to have sex with them.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)As such, it wasn't rape.
Women are chattel in their eyes.
jsr
(7,712 posts)So their wives and daughters are okay with it, right?
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Either that or she brought it on herself by dressing sexy.
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