{"id":12139,"date":"2012-08-26T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2012-08-26T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T13:08:39","slug":"rep-steve-king-ive-never-heard-of-a-girl-getting-pregnant-from-statutory-rape-or-incest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/26\/rep-steve-king-ive-never-heard-of-a-girl-getting-pregnant-from-statutory-rape-or-incest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Steve King: I\u2019ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking points Memo has the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/08\/steve-king-statutory-rape.php\" title=\"Talking Points Memo\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Steve King: I\u2019ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA 1996 review by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/journals\/2903097.html\">Guttmacher Institute<\/a> found \u201cat least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KMEG.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=651430;hostDomain=www.kmeg14.com;playerWidth=300;playerHeight=240;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7636786;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=false;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmeg14.com\" title=\"KMEG 14 - News, Weather, Sports for Sioux City and Siouxland | \">KMEG 14 &#8211; News, Weather, Sports for Sioux City and Siouxland | <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rep. King is willing to make all sorts of legislation without having personally seen a case, but on this issue, he must have a personal telling of a story before he will consider legislation.  As Stephen Colbert might say, &#8220;Is this unbelievable, or is this the most unbelievable thing you have ever heard?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why do we allow people who are as ignorant of the facts of life as Rep. Steve King is to make legislation about sexuality?  There should be a test of biological knowledge of all Congress critters before they are allowed to vote on, let alone propose, any such legislation.  Maybe we need a voter ID law for Congress critters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking points Memo has the article Rep. Steve King: I\u2019ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest. A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found \u201cat least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.\u201d KMEG 14 &#8211; News, Weather, Sports for Sioux City and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}