Todd Akin Writes Book, Swallows Foot Entirely

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**Laughing Man**

Former GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin is not sorry for saying that women don't usually get pregnant from rape.

Akin tanked his 2012 Missouri Senate campaign by claiming that there is no need for rape exceptions to abortion bans because "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." In his new book due out next week, titled Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom, Akin says he regrets airing a campaign ad apologizing for the statement, Politico reported Thursday.

"By asking the public at large for forgiveness," Akin says in the book, "I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said."

He adds that the media misconstrued his words and explains why he's still right about rape and pregnancy. "My comment about a woman's body shutting the pregnancy down was directed to the impact of stress of fertilization. This is something fertility doctors debate and discuss. Doubt me? Google 'stress and infertility,' and you will find a library of research" on the impact of stress on fertilization, he writes.

And Akin doubles down on the term "legitimate," which he says refers to a rape claim that can be proved by "evidence," as opposed to one used "to avoid an unwanted pregnancy."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/07/todd-akin-book-legitimate-rape

Looks like Akin has given up on ever having a career in politics...

**Breotan**

Well, he had already shot himself in that foot so I guess he might as well have it for dinner.

On the bright side, this will give any aspiring Republicans ammo to use against Akin in the Primary.

**Soladrin**

I am genuinely at a loss for words.

**Peregrine**

Honestly, I don't see why this guy gets so much more outrage than other conservatives. Sure, he quoted some painfully bad "science" in defense of his ideas, but it's not like his comments about "legitimate rape" are that far outside of mainstream social/religious conservative ideology. He was just careless enough to talk about it openly enough that even the hardcore social conservatives had to shun him to have any hope of winning elections.

**Avatar 720**

Oh, him again.

You take him out back and I'll get the shotgun, I think he's beyond saving.

**daedalus**

Akin makes me proud I moved here from Illinois.

...lets allow that some time to sink in.

**gorgon**

I don't really have examples to share on this, but in this political climate I think it's probably better to double down on a stupid comment than to backtrack, apologize and come off like someone who'll "compromise his values." This goes for either side of the aisle.

**mega_bassist**

daedalus wrote:
Akin makes me proud I moved here from Illinois.

...lets allow that some time to sink in.

I'm pretty sure that's the only time that sentence has ever been uttered

**whembly**

mega_bassist wrote:
daedalus wrote:
Akin makes me proud I moved here from Illinois.

...lets allow that some time to sink in.

I'm pretty sure that's the only time that sentence has ever been uttered

O.o

Woah.

*for those who aren't familiar... Illinois politicians are known for corruptions.

**hotsauceman1**

Peregrine wrote:
Honestly, I don't see why this guy gets so much more outrage than other conservatives. Sure, he quoted some painfully bad "science" in defense of his ideas, but it's not like his comments about "legitimate rape" are that far outside of mainstream social/religious conservative ideology. He was just careless enough to talk about it openly enough that even the hardcore social conservatives had to shun him to have any hope of winning elections.

that is pretty much it. We all know it is what many or some might think, but you dont say it. Just like everyone knows the customer is never right, but you dont say it.

**-Shrike-**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peregrine wrote:
Honestly, I don't see why this guy gets so much more outrage than other conservatives. Sure, he quoted some painfully bad "science" in defense of his ideas, but it's not like his comments about "legitimate rape" are that far outside of mainstream social/religious conservative ideology. He was just careless enough to talk about it openly enough that even the hardcore social conservatives had to shun him to have any hope of winning elections.

that is pretty much it. We all know it is what many or some might think, but you dont say it. Just like everyone knows the customer is never right, but you dont say it.

Sometimes I'm glad English politics are further left than America; we don't seem to reach the extremes of conservatism. I've never met anybody who would espouse such an idiotic viewpoint (that probably tells you more about the people I know than anything else...

).

**timetowaste85**

Has this idiot been sterilized yet so he doesn't breed? If not, we, as a nation, should get right on that.

**Hordini**

-Shrike- wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peregrine wrote:
Honestly, I don't see why this guy gets so much more outrage than other conservatives. Sure, he quoted some painfully bad "science" in defense of his ideas, but it's not like his comments about "legitimate rape" are that far outside of mainstream social/religious conservative ideology. He was just careless enough to talk about it openly enough that even the hardcore social conservatives had to shun him to have any hope of winning elections.

that is pretty much it. We all know it is what many or some might think, but you dont say it. Just like everyone knows the customer is never right, but you dont say it.

Sometimes I'm glad English politics are further left than America; we don't seem to reach the extremes of conservatism. I've never met anybody who would espouse such an idiotic viewpoint (that probably tells you more about the people I know than anything else... ).

The extremes of the left-wing aren't really any better. It's all ridiculous.