word of the year?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Aug 20 15:56:42 UTC 2012


At 8/20/2012 10:36 AM, Michael Newman wrote:
>Actually, it's a meme:
>
>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/rep-todd-akin-wrong-not-alone

And there we have, in response to  Alexandra Petri's article, an
actual, named doctor with the 18th-century belief that a woman can't
get pregnant when raped:  "John C. Willke, an anti-abortion doctor,
[who] writes on the website Christian Life Resources".

Joel

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