Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on Monday insisted
that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) was right to claim women could not become
pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
“What Todd Akin is talking about is when you’ve got a real, genuine
rape. A case of forcible rape, a case of assault, where a woman has been
violated against her will through the use of physical force where it is
physically traumatic for her,” Fischer said on his radio program.
“Under those circumstances, the woman’s body — because of the trauma
that has been inflicted on her — it may interfere with the normal
function processes of her body that lead to conception and pregnancy.”
Fischer
said the trauma from rape interfered with normal physiological
processes that occur during conception, which “may make it impossible
for her, or difficult in that particular circumstance, to conceive a
child.”
In a television interview
over the weekend, Akin claimed women could not become pregnant after
being raped because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole
thing down.”
Akin has been widely denounced for the outrageous claim by Democrats,
fellow Republicans, rape victims and others. Akin, who is running for
Senate in Missouri, has apologized
for the use of the phrase “legitimate rape” and acknowledged that a
woman can become pregnant as the result of a sexual assault.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told Raw Story that Akin’s point of view was “consistent” with that of other House Republicans, including vice presidential candidate Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI)............................
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