Comedian Tina Fey took a jab at Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, whose campaign was widely condemned by fellow Republicans when he falsely claimed in August that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.”
“Todd Akin claims that women can’t really get pregnant from a ‘legitimate rape’ because the body secretes hormones,” Fey told the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Inaugural Gala in New York Wednesday night, E! Online reports. “Now I can’t even finish this sentence without getting dumber; it’s making me dumber when I say it — but it’s something about the body not being able to get pregnant when it’s under physical stress.
“Mr. Akin, I think you are confusing the phrase ‘legitimate rape’ with the phrase ‘competitive gymnastics.'”
