Why am I not surprised? (And, really, how much uglier could Todd Akin‘s story get?)
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Akin’s source about the rarity of pregnancy resulting in rape is from a 1972 study by Dr. Fred Mecklenburg, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School at the time. The Post-Dispatch writes:
In supporting his claim about trauma and ovulation, Mecklenburg cited experiments conducted in Nazi death camps.
The Nazis tested this hypothesis ‘by selecting women who were about to ovulate and sending them to the gas chambers, only to bring them back after their realistic mock-killing, to see what the effect this had on their ovulatory patterns. An extremely high percentage of these women did not ovulate.'”
I’m shocked to silence. Luckily, this commenter, who goes by the name of DriveBy, isn’t:
It would appear that the links between the Republican brain and the Nazi brain are even deeper than the obvious.”
Googling the Holocaust 
incredibly disturbing….
I’m a republican and grossly abhor the Nazi brain/mindset. It’s a disgusting smudge on humanity, Naziism is. To have published such a thought with your blog that I’ve enjoyed until this minute is amazingly insensitive, prejudiced, judgmental, and most of all, unintelligent. Truly.
Andi,
You’re right, it was an ill-conceived blanket statement about Republicans. I’m sorry for offending you. I was responding with emotion when I wrote that post and shouldn’t have lumped all Republicans together like that. Please accept my apology.
Julie
Julie,
I completely accept your apology. I understand getting caught up in the emotion and I’ve said/posted plenty that I might have thought better of …had I thought! No problem. Thank you for your blog. It’s important to remember something so recently wicked and redeeming to read stories like that of the Jewish baker in the NE US. Blessings.
Andi