Just in case you thought Akin....sm

was an isolated event:

As for the substance of what Akin told a local TV reporter, we’ve heard this before.
There was state Rep. Henry Aldridge of North Carolina in 1995, during a debate to eliminate a state abortion fund for poor women:

“The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work and they don’t get pregnant,” said Aldridge, a 71-year-old periodontist. “Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever.”

Then there was the case of state Sen. Don Thomas of Georgia – a soft-spoken Republican from Dalton, who in 2003 argued that rape victims ought not to be exempted from legislation intended to make women think twice before submitting to an abortion:

“Relying on my personal experience in my home county of 90,000 people, we don’t have rape cases resulting in pregnancy, ” he said.

Again, an elderly male physician declared that the lack of “vaginal secretions” was the key. (Thomas has since retired from the Legislature.)