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<blockquote data-quote="JB Books" data-source="post: 2087774" data-attributes="member: 6889"><p>Is this enough evidence? I'm not being snarky, it's just impossible to deny the GOP gaffe on winning women voters.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Steve King, Roscoe Bartlett, Tom Smith, Jim Buchy, Roger Rivard, Linda McMahon, Joe Walsh, John Koster </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Rep. Tod Akin (R-Mo.) argued against a woman's right to have an abortion, even in the case of rape. In an interview conducted in August, he said, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." </p><p></p><p>When Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student, spoke at a healthcare hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, she advocated for expanding access to birth control. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh interpreted her statement like this: </p><p></p><p>"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."</p><p></p><p>Today, CNN commentator and right wing blogger Erick Erickson defended Limbaugh, explaining that while Rush’s comments were indeed “insults,” they were nevertheless justified, because after all, the previously unknown woman had testified that she “wanted the tax payers to pay her to have sex.” </p><p></p><p>Santorum supporter Foster Friess on MSNBC just now said in his day, "gals" put aspirin between their knees. <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/santorum-backer-suggests-women-use-aspirin-between-their" target="_blank">http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/santorum-backer-suggests-women-use-aspirin-between-their</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>On October 23rd, 2012, about two months after Todd Akin's comments, Richard Mourdock, the Indiana State Treasurer and 2012 Republican Senate candidate, became embroiled in a similar controversy when he stated that pregnancy from rape was "something god intended".</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_and_pregnancy_controversies_in_United_States_elections,_2012" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_and_pregnancy_controversies_in_United_States_elections,_2012</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JB Books, post: 2087774, member: 6889"] Is this enough evidence? I'm not being snarky, it's just impossible to deny the GOP gaffe on winning women voters. Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Steve King, Roscoe Bartlett, Tom Smith, Jim Buchy, Roger Rivard, Linda McMahon, Joe Walsh, John Koster Rep. Tod Akin (R-Mo.) argued against a woman's right to have an abortion, even in the case of rape. In an interview conducted in August, he said, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." When Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student, spoke at a healthcare hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, she advocated for expanding access to birth control. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh interpreted her statement like this: "What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex." Today, CNN commentator and right wing blogger Erick Erickson defended Limbaugh, explaining that while Rush’s comments were indeed “insults,” they were nevertheless justified, because after all, the previously unknown woman had testified that she “wanted the tax payers to pay her to have sex.” Santorum supporter Foster Friess on MSNBC just now said in his day, "gals" put aspirin between their knees. [url]http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/santorum-backer-suggests-women-use-aspirin-between-their[/url] On October 23rd, 2012, about two months after Todd Akin's comments, Richard Mourdock, the Indiana State Treasurer and 2012 Republican Senate candidate, became embroiled in a similar controversy when he stated that pregnancy from rape was "something god intended". [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_and_pregnancy_controversies_in_United_States_elections,_2012[/url] [/QUOTE]
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