Bachmann BFF & fellow nutjob King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape

[maddezmom]

Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. On Monday, King signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.

King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.

“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”

A Democratic source flagged King’s praise of Akin in the KMEG interview to TPM. But potentially more controversial for King is his suggestion that pregnancies from statutory rape or incest don’t exist or happen rarely. A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found “at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.”

The tie between statutory rape and teen pregnancy has been the subject of ad campaigns from groups like United Way.

more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/steve-king-statutory-rape.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

[Aerows]

1. Uh, yeah

a ten or eleven year old that got pregnant from her uncle or grandfather "wanted it". Because all women, no matter the age, "want it" from men. Women crave abuse so that they know their place in the world.

[TruthAnalyzed]

2. Nobody I personally know has ever

defrauded investors
killed a person
stolen candy from a baby
beaten a child

... so clearly those things don't happen. GOP Logic FTW.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. The idiocy of these Republicans boggles the mind.

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. Science deniers ignorant of biology. What a surprise...

[Ikonoklast]

4. I've never seen Antartica, therefore, it doesn't exist.

Logical thinking is a concept foreign to those who cannot grasp it.

[progree]

6. Good quote I found in The Nation about the CONNEDservative view of science and rationality

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"We live in a world where scientific knowledge is subordinated to political and religious dogma, where intellect and expertise are denigrated as elitist, where demands proliferate that history be taught as an exercise in national self-congratulation, not critical self-examination. This is the frame of mind that divides the world, and America itself, into the forces of good and evil, and sees every dissenting view as disloyalty." - Eric Foner

[Ikonoklast]

7. Every advance in human evolutionary history has been that

of the more intelligent sub-species advancing and the lesser intellectually capable branches becoming extinct.

I am wondering if we are in the midst of a further evolutionary split based on the rejection of intelligent thought.



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