6 Worst Things Republicans Have Said About Rape, Sex and Women's Bodies

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http://www.alternet.org/6-worst-things-republicans-have-said-about-rape-sex-and-womens-bodies

It's not just GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin. It's practically a party tradition.



1. Other absurd Republican contributions to the “rape doesn’t lead to babies” myth.

As Anna North reported earlier this year, other Republicans paved the way for Akin’s recent statements. In 1995, Republican Henry Aldridge stated that when a woman is raped, “the juices don’t flow,” and in 1988 another Republican congressman stated that women emit “a certain secretion,” which stops pregnancy, when they are raped. (Which has led many of us to ask: which is it, guys? Do these mythical “juices” flow,

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2. Then there’s the daddy of all these rape theories : the National Right to Life Committee’s John C. Willke’s claims in an article that the the “trauma” of rape prevents pregnancy -- i.e., he “basically just makes shit up,” writes Katie J. M. Baker at Jezebel.

3. Want contraception? Put an aspirin between your knees.

This line, now a total cultural punchline, comes from Foster Friess,who was a big donor to Rick Santorum before moving on to supporting Romney. The video clip featuring Friess’s comments and Andrea Mitchell’s flummoxed response went viral this spring.

Friess: This contraceptive thing, my gosh it's such inexpensive, back in my days we used Bayer aspirin for contraception, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

Mitchell: Um, excuse me, I'm trying to catch my breath from that Mr. Friess, frankly...


4. Seeking to legally redefine rape as “forcible rape” so fewer women will qualify as victims.

Remember the media firestorm around the “war on women”? One of its major fronts consisted of Congressional shenanigans around the definition of rape in the noxious H.R. 3 “ No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” bill.These efforts included Akin and VP candidate Paul Ryan and were aimed at siphoning off the number of abortion-funding exemptions so that only the rarest few qualified. What offended women most -- and eventually scuttled the bill -- was the idea that the government could weigh whether your rape “counted” or not.

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1. The aspirin "joke" goes back to early 1960's

Back to the early years of The Pill.

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2. Great post but the sign in the photo is not exactly true.

It should read "Republicans care about fetuses ... until they see the light of day". They really don't wait until they become women to stop caring about them.