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? asked in Politics & GovernmentElections · 7 years ago

Why does Republican Representative Larry Lockman think RAPE should be legal as long as Abortion is legal?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/lawrence-...

Larry the Republican from Maine claims in several articles that men should be able to use their superior power to force women to have sex with them because most rapes don't end up in death and since we can legally do abortions - everything will be fine?

Is this just another sleazy politician using their political power to excuse their friends and their own heinous crimes against women?

Using his line of thinking - then Bill Clinton's sexcapades are fine now?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    This is what he said which is not what you say he said .

    "If a woman has [the right to an abortion], why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?" Lockman wrote. "At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t [in most cases] result in anyone’s death."

    this is not a promotion of a mans right to rape but a statement condemning abortion .

  • 7 years ago

    @ Mercadies2000: the issue isn't that it is one person. the party has a habit of talking about rape in a nonsense way

  • 7 years ago

    Your source says it all, how do you people read such garbage? And even if he did he's one person, not a whole party and stop taking things out of context.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I don't think he thinks that.

  • 7 years ago

    Cuz he's an idiot. Next question.

  • Joe
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    really the huffington post. u really believe them

  • 7 years ago

    More conservative nonsense.

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