Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Did Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin get a bad science education? Why did Speaker John Boehner put Akin on the House Science Committee?

Speaker John Boehner should remove Rep. Todd Akin from the House Science and Technology Committee, and apologize for having made such a foolish decision in the first place. But maybe it wasn't foolish. Maybe it was calculated with the purpose of suppressing science.

Republican Congressman Todd Akin told a Missouri news station:

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare... If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Someone who believes nonsense like this has no part overseeing science policy.

PETITION: REMOVE TODD AKIN FROM THE SCIENCE COMMITTEE

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