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    “Early menopause? Nah, we think you have had 4 abortions this year. Prove you didn’t or go to prison.”

    I guess we shouldn’t expect better from the party of bad female anatomy, sex education repression, and couch fucking. Weirdos.

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        Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate, sparked controversy with a claim, made in a TV interview posted Sunday, that victims of “legitimate rape” very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so.

        Speaking to Charles Jaco on the Jaco Report on St. Louis’s Fox station, Akin was answering a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape. He said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

        https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/akin-legitimate-rape-victims-dont-get-pregnant-079864

        Todd Akin did apologize and then decided to make it worse.

        In July 2014, WND Books published Akin’s book, Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom. In it, he said that he regretted apologizing, because “by asking the public at large for forgiveness, I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said.” He also defended his original comments and attacked various Republicans for “wronging” him…

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#Aftermath