I am enraged by this.

r state Representative Henry Aldridge,…l exam by having her swallow a tiny camera. And who among us can forget former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who once claimed that women can’t get pregnant if they’ve been raped because “the female body has ways to shut the whole thing down.” (Akin was not the only Republican congressman who believed this: In 1995, North Carolina’s former state Representative Henry Aldridge, claimed that when women are raped, “the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work, and they don’t get pregnant.”)
Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Have No Idea How Women’s Bodies Work
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Jessica Valenti
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May 16, 2019
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I am enraged by this. I was enraged then and I am enraged now. They need to sit the hell down and shut the hell up. NO, their opinions shouldn’t matter. They have no right to have any say in policy regulating something they know less than zero about.
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