Rep. Steve King: I've never heard of a girl getting pregnant from statutory rape

[ck4829]

Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.

King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.

“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”

A Democratic source flagged King’s praise of Akin in the KMEG interview to TPM. But potentially more controversial for King is his suggestion that pregnancies from statutory rape or incest don’t exist or happen rarely. A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found “at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/steve-king-statutory-rape.php

I never heard about it before, therefore it never happened! IT! NEVER! HAPPENED!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Keep talking

The elephant is quite big.

[uponit7771]

2. Just don't know why the DNC hasn't stomped them on this issue, it turns everyone off not just women

[RC]

6. Because the DNC has been taken over by the DLC, starting in 1985

They dissolved in 2011 after their job was done. The DLC consisted of Right of Center Democrats, the equivalent of moderate Republicans. And people wonder why the unemployment rate is still so high and the 'recovery' is taking so long.


A little history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council
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What needs to be done is to drag the Democratic Party back over to where it belongs, Center and Left of Center. The two parties are snuggled up and sleeping on the same Right side of the bed and that does not seem to be working very well for some reason. (Recovery anyone?)
You have the Republicans hanging over the edge of the bed, in danger of falling off and the Democrats in the inside, snuggled against them, spoon style.

[DURHAM D]

12. The DNC was moved to Chicago in June of 2008.

It is controlled by the White House.

What is your point?

[RC]

18. I made my point.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I'm fascinated that some people believe life exposes them to everything...

....and that if they never were exposed to it, it must not exist.

[aikoaiko]

4. they are like lemmings -- only more idiotic.

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[TwilightGardener]

7. That is just damn cute.

[wordpix]

10. no they are like this

<a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/ugly rat/Emilyday2010/MOLERAT.jpg?o=17" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0"></a>

[tanyev]

5. Wasn't he listening to himself when he defended his position on dog fights?

REP. STEVE KING, R-IA (8/1/2012): What I said is that we need to respect humans more than we do animals. Whenever we start elevating animals up to above that of humans, we've crossed a moral line. For example, if there's a sexual predator out there who has impregnated a young girl, say a 13-year-old girl, ... that sexual predator can pick that girl off the playground at the middle school and haul her across the state line, and force her to get an abortion to eradicate the evidence of his crime, and bring her back and drop her off at the swing set, and that's not against the law in the United States of America.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/08/1117889/-Stephen-Colbert-rips-apart-Rep-Steve-King-s-R-IA-pro-animal-torture-stance

[TwilightGardener]

8. Why does he think rape and kidnapping of a minor is legal? This man is so stupid and

ignorant, it would be funny--if he was just some anonymous asshole and not writing laws.

[wordpix]

13. this guy is too stooopid to breathe

[JPZenger]

9. We've all read of girls becoming pregnant from incest

[kenny blankenship]

16. But for some reason, little Petey King's parents never let him find out.

I wonder why!

[JPZenger]

11. Obama is just going to go back to running the country, and let these asswipes defeat themselves

[kenny blankenship]

14. Where do they get these guys?

And where do they pick up such crazy shit? "You can't get pregnant from rape" "I've never heard of anyone getting pregnant from statutory..." etc.?

Is this something that is taught in "traditional values" churches? Was it some (sub)urban myth that originated and was parroted all over AM hate radio for decades? Does anyone know?

[JaneQPublic]

15. Paging Oprah!!

Apparently King missed the big episode of Oprah's talk show where she revealed she had a baby while a young girl as a result of a family member messing with her.

[Marrah_G]

17. I hate these people

I really do hate these people.

I hate everything about them.

I hate that they have any say in our laws.

I hate that they are influencing another generation with their ignorance.