{"id":1082,"date":"2012-08-21T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2012-08-21T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T22:53:04","slug":"progenitor-of-akin-rape-theory-was-2007-romney-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/21\/progenitor-of-akin-rape-theory-was-2007-romney-surrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"Progenitor of Akin Rape Theory Was 2007 Romney Surrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jack Willke, a longtime leader of the antiabortion movement and the leading proponent of the theory that pregnancy resulting from rape is rare, served as a Mitt Romney surrogate in 2007, the<em>\u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-doctor-behind-todd-akins-rape-theory-was-a-romney-surrogate-in-2007-20120821,0,80862.story\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romney has distanced himself from the Missouri Republican Senate nominee, Rep. <strong>Todd Akin<\/strong>, R-Mo., for repeating the theory &#8212; which conflicts with scientific evidence &#8212; that women&#8217;s bodies reject pregnancies following rape, which conflicts with scientific evidence. Romney\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/romney-calls-for-akin-s-exit-from-senate-race-20120821\">called<\/a> for Akin to end his campaign. Akin has apologized for using the phrase &#8220;legitimate rape&#8221; and acknowledged that rape can lead to pregnancy, but he has refused to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>In an October 2007 statement, Romney said, &#8220;I am proud to have the support of a man who has meant so much to the pro-life movement in our country,&#8221; after Willkes endorsed him for the Republican nomination, the <em>Times<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/progenitor-of-akin-rape-theory-was-2007-romney-surrogate-20120821\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/progenitor-of-akin-rape-theory-was-2007-romney-surrogate-20120821<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jack Willke, a longtime leader of the antiabortion movement and the leading proponent of the theory that pregnancy resulting from rape is rare, served as a Mitt Romney surrogate in 2007, the\u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00c2\u00a0reported. Romney has distanced himself from the Missouri Republican Senate nominee, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., for repeating the theory &#8212; which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/21\/progenitor-of-akin-rape-theory-was-2007-romney-surrogate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progenitor of Akin Rape Theory Was 2007 Romney Surrogate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[504,114,6],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ben-schreckinger","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-hs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}