What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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motherjones:
“ Congressional Quarterly reporter Emily Ethridge offers firsthand knowledge of anti-choice Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) ignorance on women’s health. This comes after King said earlier this morning that he’d never heard of a girl getting...

motherjones:

Congressional Quarterly reporter Emily Ethridge offers firsthand knowledge of anti-choice Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) ignorance on women’s health. This comes after King said earlier this morning that he’d never heard of a girl getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest, which was a roundabout way of defending Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who last weekend asserted that women who are the victims of “legitimate rape” have bodily defenses to avoid pregnancy.

It’s par for the course for conservatives, including Akin, King, and Paul Ryan, who have long sought to redefine “rape.”

You know, I guarantee both these fuckers have heard about Elisabeth Fritzl and Jaycee Dugard; you’d had to have been living under a rock not to. So either they’ve conveniently chosen to elide the memory of what happened to those women, or on some level, they genuinely think they consented.

And if that thought isn’t enough to bring you out in a cold, horrific sweat, I don’t know what is. 

Someone needs to get a list together of all the cases like theirs that were publicly and prominently reported on - ones where only either an idiot or a monster would dispute the facts - and get these men to comment on them. Let’s have another Soledad O'Brien moment where an American journalist actually does their fucking job with a list of the facts in hand. This bullshit cannot continue. It mustn’t.  

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    And….yet again Rep. Steve King is the WORST person in Iowa.
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