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EVE ENSLER
REACTS TO
‘LEGITIMATE
RAPE’
REMARKS
POINTERS
HUFFINGTON
08.26.12
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) set off waves of backlash with his
remarks that women who suffer “legitimate rape” rarely
get pregnant—and Eve Ensler offered one of the most
memorable reactions. “I am asking you and the GOP to get
out of my body, out of my vagina, my womb, to get out of
all of our bodies,” the playwright and activist, who is a rape
survivor, wrote in a letter to Akin on The Huffington Post.
She described his words as “a form of re-rape.”