Female California Republican leader says " percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because it's an act of violence." I didn't know Todd Akin had a sister!

Oh that Marco Rubio! Always surrounding himself with the best of the Republican party!

Courtesy of the Daily Democrat:

A California Republican leader may have inadvertently revived the controversial subject of rape and pregnancy. 

Before arriving at the state GOP's spring convention here, Celeste Greig told this newspaper that pregnancies by rape are rare "because it's an act of violence, because the body is traumatized." 

Grieg is the president of the conservative California Republican Assembly, the state's oldest and largest GOP volunteer organization. Ronald Reagan once called it "the conscience of the Republican Party." 

Ironically, Greig was in the midst of criticizing former Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin for saying that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." It was a remark that many believe led not only to his defeat in November but also helped tarnish the Republican brand around the country. 

"That was an insensitive remark," Greig said. "I'm sure he regretted it. He should have come back and apologized." 

Greig, however, went on to say: "Granted, the percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because it's an act of violence, because the body is traumatized. I don't know what percentage of pregnancies are due to the violence of rape. Because of the trauma the body goes through, I don't know what percentage of pregnancy results from the act."

You know perhaps we ought to take our focus off of teaching sex ed classes to kids, and instead start offering them to Republican politicians. 

Hey maybe THIS is why their are fewer and fewer Republicans these days, They don't understand how reproduction works!