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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts) Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:08 AM Aug 2012

If he believes his own statement, I'm surprised Akin isn't objecting to this:

"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

After all, the woman's own body is committing an abortion. Maybe next in the GOP's war on women agenda should be injecting all rape victims with drugs to stop spontaneous abortions.

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If he believes his own statement, I'm surprised Akin isn't objecting to this: (Original Post) MoonRiver Aug 2012 OP

Don't give them any ideas, they'll try to do them. Warpy Aug 2012 #1

True. I just hope they keep revealing their hands before the election. MoonRiver Aug 2012 #2

Warpy

(111,258 posts)

1. Don't give them any ideas, they'll try to do them.

Reply to MoonRiver (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:10 AM

Aug 2012

After all, the GOP wants to reduce women back to the status of animated flowerpots, useful only for germinating man's seed and producing infants, with no civil rights, no vote, no hope.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

2. True. I just hope they keep revealing their hands before the election.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:11 AM

Aug 2012

Guess they can't help their poor deluded selves.

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