Todd Akin Not Alone In Offensive Rape Comments By Republicans

Anna North at Buzzfeed compiled a series of outrageous comments on rape by Republicans months before the Akin embarrassment.

• Idaho Senator Chuck Winder (pictured) has caused a bit of a scandal with this bizarre comment: “I would hope that when a woman goes into a physician, with a rape issue, that that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage, or was it truly caused by a rape.”
• Federal Judge James Leon Holmes, a Bush appointee, said in an article published circa 1997: “Concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.”
• In 1995, Republican Rep. Henry Aldridge told the House Appropriations committee:”The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work and they don’t get pregnant. Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever.”
• The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe. The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.