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Todd Akin's Statement On Legitimate Rape
While watching the clip "Todd Akin's Statement on Legitimate Rape", I had to watch this multiple times because his thoughts and wording did not make sense to me. He was very insensitive to the subject of rape. He is saying only some rape is legitimate and real, isn't all rape legitimate are real. He believes that if a woman is actually being raped her body will shut down and reject the pregnancy. Although that is not true because there are many cases where women are raped and still have the child. As he made his opinion public he was not only insensitive he could make people question what rape is and that the last thing we want for our society. He made a very negative comment towards rape, and I don't think he was thinking before he spoke and
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