Idaho GOP Rep Is Big Fan Of Todd Akin, Covers His Smash Hit ‘Legitimate Rape’
What’s good, Idaho Legislature? How is legislating going up there in the Great Potato State or whatever you call yourselves? Quick question: do you guys ever feel like you run, well, a little bit behind? Like perhaps your wingnuts don’t catch on to what other wingnuts are wingnutting about until several years later? Now now, we’re not shaming — we are just trying to figure out why, nearly four years after Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” fiasco, you’ve got one of your homegrown potato-fueled goobers making his own completely unfounded and equal parts hilarious and terrifying medical observations.
During today’s ultrasound bill hearing, Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, had a question for Angela Dwyer of Stanton Healthcare. He said issues of rape and incest hadn’t been addressed. “Now, I’m of the understanding that in many cases of rape it does not involve any pregnancy because of the trauma of the incident. That may be true with incest a little bit,” he added.
You know that thing on TV where people just open and close their mouths like fish to indicate extreme confusion and disbelief? That is what our mouths are doing right now. Akin’s “legitimate rape means no baby” theory was not only debunked, it was mocked into the grave it so richly deserved. Pete Nielsen must have missed all several months of that. And what on God’s green Earth are we to make of “[t]hat may be true with incest a little bit”? Is Nielsen saying that incest is a little bit less traumatic? Is he saying that incest, while traumatic, is less effective at magically making pregnancies go away? Who can say?
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My sympathies, Idahoans. I've got Louie Gohmert in my state.
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