Oregon Women at GOP Convention Say Todd Akin's Right About Rape

Willamette Week:

mother and daughter from Redmond, Oregon serving as Republican National Convention delegates told a radio reporter yesterday that Missouri Rep. Todd Akin was right that women getting pregnant from rape is "so completely rare."

Toni and Emily Jarms were in Tampa this week supporting Rick Santorum. But when Public Radio International reporter Todd Zwillich asked them about Akin's comments, 36-year-old Emily Jarms said the embattled Congressman was right.

"I actually think that a woman conceiving during rape is so completely rare that, I mean, it almost doesn't happen," Emily Jarms said.

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