One of the most conservative members of the House, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has topped even Todd Akin for ignorance about female reproductive physiology. Realize, please, that these are the very men who are dictating what choices women can make about their own reproductive health.
They're also the ones who don't want schools to provide scientific sex education. What a great recommendation they are for that !!!
King said today that he had never heard of a girl getting pregnant from "statutory rape" or "incest." Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. He obviously doesn't even know what statutory rape is.
Statutory rape is a legal term -- and a crime -- that refers to sex between an adult and a sexually mature minor under the age of consent. If the person is not sexually mature, it is called child abuse. It is a crime in most states whether the underage person agrees to the sex or not. In short, it is a crime to have sex with a person under the age of consent, period.
Surely he's heard of men having sex with 14 year old girls and getting sent to prison. That's statutory rape. Even the 14 year old girl's boyfriend could be arrested for having sex with her if he is at least 3 years older, i.e. 17.
As for not getting pregnant through incest? Surely he's joking.
And as for his and Akin's belief in the contraceptive powers of rape, read this:
A 1996 report in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reported that there are about 32,000 unwanted pregnancies caused by rape every year in the United States.
Convinced?
Ralph
President Obama said today that Todd Akin "missed science class." That, plus, this is the result of Republican approved sex education. You don't have to know anything, because "abstinence" is the only answer. So if you're abstinent, you don't have to know anything about how pregnancy occurs, because you aren't going to be "doing it."
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