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His view he expressed is this: With rare exception, if a woman gets pregnant, she wasn't rape (legitimately refers to a real rape). In short, it fits into this ethos floating around the GOP. If anything bad happens to you, it is because it is your fault, this includes getting pregnant, and everything else being peddled here. It fully fits with how the GOP operates now at this point. It is why you shouldn't "punish" the successful, and why the market will end up causing everyone to get what they deserve, because markets fully rest on the concept of free choice deciding everything. It also fits in regards to unemployment. The unemployed are a mix of Obama not making the consequences of the market severe enough, and the unemployed being too lazy to go get a job, so there MUST be a nanny state on stop that babysits every step of the way to insure those lazy good for nothing unemployed, and on welfare, go get jobs. If you didn't force this, and drive it, and make unemployment conditional on having a job, they just wouldn't do it.

So, what Akin says fully fits what the GOP believes in, operates on, and the whole Newscorp Fox News Talk Radio machine pushes over and over and over again. Everything is your fault in life, or is the fault of those who enable you to get away from your own consequences.