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Three Republican Candidates Discourse on the Subject of Rape

Calvin Trillin

October 30, 2012

(And a fourth remains exceedingly quiet)   Legitimate rape, so we’re told by Todd Akin, Will not produce children but simply awaken Defensive biology. That quickly locks The system all down, just as safe as Fort Knox.   Joe Walsh says exceptions for “life of the mother” Are phony exceptions, just like all the other Exceptions suggested. Walsh says it’s all jive, Since doctors can always keep momma alive.   Now Mourdock says rapists’ seed must be defended. A pity, he says, but it’s what God intended. This absolute stance to which Mourdock still cleaves Just happens to be what Paul Ryan believes.   The Rape Science Three can provide more reminders That now Mitt’s got wingnuts in all of those binders.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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