Jack Willke, Todd Akin’s Rape Expert, Claims He Met Privately with Mitt Romney Last Year
Posted: August 22, 2012 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, abortion rights, open thread, U.S. Politics, War on Women, Women's Healthcare, Women's Rights | Tags: abortion, Jack Willke, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, rape, Todd Akin 10 Comments
Dr. Jack Willke
Via TPM, according to the Daily Telegraph, Dr. Jack Willke, who was identified by the NYT as the source of Todd Akin’s belief that “legitimate” rape victims cannot get pregnant, says he had a private meeting with Mitt Romney in October 2011.
Mr Romney and Paul Ryan, his running mate, have denounced Mr Akin’s remarks. Dr Willke has been given no role in Mr Romney’s 2012 campaign and aides stress that the candidate disagrees with his theory on rape.
However, Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor’s home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.
“He told me ‘thank you for your support – we agree on almost everything, and if I am elected President I will make some major pro-life pronouncements’,” Dr Willke said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
“I thanked him, and said I knew where he was – that he was 99 per cent of what we wanted,” he said of the roughly ten-minute meeting. “I told him I would help in any way I could”. A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.
Willke has also met with VP candidate Paul Ryan several times.
He said that after listening to Dr Willke’s views on abortion during their last encounter, Mr Ryan replied: “That’s where I’m at”.
This is getting interesting. This is the first time I’ve ever looked forward to watching a Republican National Convention.
This is an open thread.
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Wow … wonder what R&R will do to tapdance around this.
Can you believe it? Romney went to all these wingnuts on bended knee.
I hope he wiped his mouth when he was finished.
I think his wife has written several books on abortion……………..seems to me that Dr. Wilkie ought to have his license suspended for putting out bullshit information.
He should go to jail as a mass murderer. Women will die and have died because of BS junk science like this nutjob is preaching.
Right now I’m thinking that very few doctors are trust worthy. We are on our own.
Willke was also Henry Hyde’s expert on all things abortional. Saw some footage of them on Young Turks.
Interesting. It seems we’re getting a look under the rock that the GOP has been hiding its creepy ideas under for decades.
Bastards!
Rape “expert.” (spits) I’ll give him expertise. (grabs pitchfork) Just me and a few of my friends who’ve been “illegitimately” raped.
Yeeeaaah those Reps know all about women , so they must know how to fix the economy too. Mitt the liftime priest can do it! Wisdom from middle east age Mormon cult can save US!
Rep’s reasoning go back to 12th-century when philosopher William of Conches (Mormon favorite), “prostitutes who have sexual relations for money alone, and who take no pleasure during the sex act, do not conceive.” They would, however, get pregnant from sex with a lover.
Nearly a 1000 years generation gap problem with the Reps.