He Said What?
real Quotes voiced by elected officials
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." - Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO.), August 2012 [Truth: An estimated 25,000 pregnancies result from rape each year.]
"As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it." - former Republican Texas gubernatorial contender Clayton Williams, on rape, March 1990.
"[Abortions make up] well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." - Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), April 2011 [Truth: Only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's services involve abortion.]
"[Singer] Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of forcible rape." -former Republican Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, on the "upside" of conceiving after rape, August 2012.
"The method of conception doesn't change the definition of life." - Vice Presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), on sexual assault that results in pregnancy, August 2012.
*All statements and facts above came from the November 2012 issue of Cosmopolitan.