'Most of my rapes were not the gentlemen jumping out of the bushes that nobody had ever met. That was one or two times out of 100,' said Republican Representative Barry Hovis.
A Missouri state lawmaker seemed to claim that many cases of sexual assault were"consensual rape" before he and other members of the state legislature passed a bill banning abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy.
"Let's just say someone is sexually assaulted. They have eight weeks to make a decision," continued Hovis. "I've never really studied it, but I've heard of the morning-after pill, where if someone feels they've been sexually assaulted, they could go do that. It gives them ample time in that eight weeks to make those exclusions. Which I may not be comfortable with, but it does give those people that exclusion.
Hovis' remarks evoke those from former Missouri congressman Todd Akin. In 2012, while speaking about abortion, Akin was asked whether he thought abortion was justified in cases of rape. Democrats railed against the bill. Representative Sarah Unsicker listed "ways that women around the world who don't have access to legal abortion perform their own."
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