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Rep. Speier: Akin’s rape views ‘consistent’ with ‘vast majority of Republicans’
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) reacted to Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks that “legitimate rape” was unlikely to result in pregnancy, saying on Monday that she felt Akin’s point of view was “consistent” with that of other House Republicans, including vice presidential candidate Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI). When reached by phone to…
Akin’s Views Are Mainstream on the Right
With pressure mounting on him from all sides, I’m going to guess that Todd Akin will be dropping out of the race and letting the runner-up in the Republican primary run in his stead by mid-week, or possibly by the end of the day. This will allow Republicans to pretend…
Scott Brown calls on Todd Akin to quit after ‘legitimate’ rape remark
Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown on Monday called on his party’s Missouri Senate candidate to drop out following his claim that women who were victims of “legitimate” rape could not get pregnant. “As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape…
Scarborough on Akin: ‘This Republican party does not want to win’
Conservative MSNBC host Scarborough on Monday lamented that a recent assertion by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin about “legitimate” rape showed that the Republican Party was continually “shooting themselves in the foot” by nominating the most extreme candidates. During an interview with a local TV station over the weekend, Akin…
Does ‘legitimate rape’-defining Missouri Rep. Todd Akin believe women are really ducks?
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who currently sits on the House Science Committee but would desperately like to replace Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) in the Senate, has some rather odd ideas about human female evolution, which he explained to a local television station yesterday. It seems to me, first of all,…
McCaskill: Rape remarks are a ‘window into Todd Akin’s mind’
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on Monday said that it was “jaw dropping and stunning” for her Republican opponent for Senate to claim that women who are victims of “legitimate” would not get pregnant. “This statement is kind of window into Todd Akin’s mind,” McCaskill explained to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “If…
GOP Senate nominee: Women don’t get pregnant from ‘legitimate’ rapes
Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri, claimed in a TV interview this weekend that women who are ‘legitimate’ victims of rape do not get pregnant because their bodies somehow prevent that from happening. As first reported by TPM, Akin, in an interview with local station KTVI-TV, was…
Rep. Todd Akin: Morning-after pills should be banned
Republican Rep. Todd Akin, who is running for Senate in Missouri, on Wednesday said that emergency contraceptive pills should be outlawed. “As far as I’m concerned, the morning-after pill is a form of abortion,” he told KCMO’s Greg Knapp, “and I think we shouldn’t have abortion in this country.” Akin…
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