On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 7:21:13 AM UTC-7, bruce bowser wrote:
Did Republicans Actually Say These Things About Rape?
Snopes - Sep 29, 2020
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"Rape is kinda like the weather. If it's inevitable, relax and enjoy it." (On 24 March 1990, Texas oilman Clayton Williams, the Republican
nominee)
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that thing down."
(On 19 August 2012, U.S. Representative Todd Akin of
Missouri, a Republican)
"Rape victims should make the best of a bad situation."
(On 20 January 2012, Rick Santorum, a former U.S. Senator from
Pennsylvania
"Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
(On 23 October 2012, Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for
one of Indiana's U.S. Senate seats
"In the emergency room they have what's called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out."
(On 23 June 2013, Jodie Laubenberg, a Republican member of the
Texas House of Representatives
"If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn't a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist's pursuit of sexual freedom doesn't (in most cases) result in anyone's death."
(Lawrence Lockman, a Republican member of the Maine House of Representatives)
Hey bozo, you NEVER answered the question: what CRIME did the baby commit that he or she deserves to be MURDERED????
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