Citations:legitimate rape

English citations of legitimate rape

a genuine, legitimate act of rape

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• 2012 August 19, David Cohen, “Earlier: Akin: 'Legitimate rape' rarely leads to pregnancy”, in Politico‎^[1]:

  Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate, sparked controversy with a claim, made in a TV interview posted Sunday, that victims of 'legitimate rape' very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so. Speaking to Charles Jaco on the Jaco Report on St. Louis’s Fox station, Akin was answering a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape. He said, 'If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.'

• 2012 August 22, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Re: What is "legitimate rape"?”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends‎^[2] (Usenet):

  There are also plenty of cases where some slut has second thoughts after having gotten drunk and willingly having sex like pulling the train at a party but for some reason or another decides to deny, after the fact, that she was a willing participant, so she yells rape. I would say any such cases are not legitimate rape.

• 2013 May 29, RazerX, “Re: Legitimate rape pinball”, in rec.games.pinball‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Looks about as much fun as legitimate rape. I'm gonna hold out for the LE.

• 2014 July 8, Trijcomm, “Christian ICON Mike Huckabee Says "Legitimate rape" Todd Akin Was Attacked For Being A Christian”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling‎^[4] (Usenet):

  Although Akin attempted to apologize for his infamous 'legitimate rape' remark during his campaign, he now says that nothing he said was wrong and insists he was attacked for simply trying to promote biblical values in politics.

• 2015 October 25, Keyser Soze, “Re: Legitimate Rape...Again”, in rec.boats‎^[5] (Usenet):

  'Just like any rape, you have to report it, and you have to prove it,' Brattin tells Mother Jones. 'So you couldn't just go and say, 'Oh yeah, I was raped,' and get an abortion. It has to be a legitimate rape.' Legitimate rape…again. Asshole Republicans...as usual.

• 2016, Meredith G. F. Worthen, Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination‎^[6], Routledge, →ISBN, page 347:

  This creates a system whereby only some people are conceived of as 'legitimate' rape victims and others are viewed as 'blameworthy' or not even seen as victims at all.

• 2017 November 10, Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns, The New York Times‎^[7]:

  But if Mr. Moore wins, the party faces a potentially more untenable prospect: welcoming a child-molesting suspect into their ranks, a move that every Republican candidate would have to answer for. That raised memories of Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate who in 2012 said victims of 'legitimate rape' rarely got pregnant, an assertion that Democrats hung around every candidate that year.

• 2018 September 20, Michael Bowman, “Kavanaugh Firestorm Poses Electoral Risks for Both Parties”, in Voice of America‎^[8]:

  Polls show McCaskill tied with her Republican challenger, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. McCaskill has a history of benefiting from headlines about sexual assault. In 2012, she won re-election handily after her opponent, Republican Todd Akin, said women rarely get pregnant in cases of 'legitimate rape.'