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Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, August 23rd, the P90X edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X,

here at the Washington, D.C. studio. I am joined in New York by Alison Benedict, the other editor of

double X. Hi, Allison. Hi. And also Noreen Malone of the New Republic. Hi, Noreen. Our three topics today are first, we're going to talk about the ignorant things that Representative Todd Aiken said and why they matter. And second, we're going to talk about the hot or not debate about Paul Ryan. And thirdly, we're going to talk about Augusta and whether the two

women who were recently offered membership should have taken it. So just to recap what happened,

on a TV interview recently, Representative Todd Akron, who's a Republican from Missouri, was talking

about rape exceptions with abortion. And he basically said if it's legitimate rape, that was

his first mistake, calling it legitimate rape, then, and now here comes to second mistake, then the

female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down. So what do you guys think he meant when

he said the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down.

So it turns out that Aiken's an accolade of this guy, Dr. John C. Wilkie, who is sort of a,

you know, crackpot of a doctor who was the president of the National Rights to Life Committee,

and he sort of spread the myth that this was a thing. The New York Times quoted him

saying, this is Wilkie. This is a traumatic thing. She's, shall we say, she's uptight. She's

frightened tight and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to

fertilize. The tubes are spastic. I love this theory. Like, I am also really uptight and yet incredibly fertile. The tubes are spastic. I love this theory. Like, I am also really uptight and yet incredibly fertile.

The tubes are spastic.

I don't even know what that means, but...

This does not give it any credence whatsoever or his belief in it in any creans.

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