He was entirely correct to say that pregnancies in cases of forcible rape are rare.Umm, that's not what he said.
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Posted on 08/22/2012 7:43:13 PM PDT by JediJones
The slavering, slobbering hyenas in the Republican party, by tearing at the flesh of their own senatorial candidate Todd Akin, are doing their best to blow their shot at taking control of the Senate. By eating their own, they are consuming themselves. And they seem too brainless to know it.
If he loses this race, it will be the fault of party poobahs, not Todd Akin. One of the party leaders actually suggested last night that the GOP try to run a third-party challenge to their own candidate. That would be a certifiably guaranteed way to forfeit victory to the opposition.
Akin’s words, for which he apologized even though he had no need to, were right. He was entirely correct to say that pregnancies in cases of forcible rape are rare.
He did not, by the way, say that pregnancy was impossible in rape, just rare.
How about the New York Times, the Bible of [left-wingers]? “Lowering Stress Improves Fertility Treatment.”
Said Dr. Domar, “If you’re really stressed out and depressed, the body seems to sense that’s not a good time to get pregnant.” Hmm. Sound suspiciously like the body shutting down, no?
Todd Akin uses one word that was grossly misinterpreted by his enemies, and the members of his own party throw his carcass to the jackals.
Now that Akin has decided to stay in...as he should, ignoring the hysterical bellows and the pitchforks, the ruling class Republicans will have to eat some crow and reverse themselves by resuming support for Akin’s candidacy. Certainly they cannot be so stupid as to commit hari-kiri by withholding help because they’re in some kind of snit. Can they?
The lesson from all of this: if you’re a Republican, and you want a friend in the party, you’d better buy a dog.
(Excerpt) Read more at afa.net ...
Akin’s biggest supporter is none other than Senator Clarie McCaskill. She loves him. You should feel proud to stand in that company. A company of morons. BTW, he is no champion of those who oppose the murder of the unborn, he is unwittingly advancing the cause of infanticide.
He was entirely correct to say that pregnancies in cases of forcible rape are rare.Umm, that's not what he said.
Forcible legitimate
The defenders boggle the mind, no doubt. It’s far more than a gaffe - especially given the (unfair) broad brush the media paints with.
Thanks akin you fool..when my children.. and yours as well, die waiting for basic medical services in the future..I hope you have a special place with satan...
Drama Queen
The gop wants Akins out, all conservatives out. What he said is no worse than some of the things Romney said. You think the dnc are not going to air commercials with romney saying does not care about poor or he doesn’t knowwhat it’s like being unemployed and having no money?
I’m happy to learn that after I speak you’re going to hear from Ann Coulter. That’s a good thing. I think it’s important to get the views of moderates.
I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.
I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.
I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed. (Mitt Romney’s net worth is over $200 million)
I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.
I love this state. The trees are the right height.
Akins is out, having decided not to run this year.
So I guess Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Allen West are RINOs now
Sure that's part of McCaskill's advisor's plans.
She spent an awful lot of hard to find campaign donations on Akin's campaign. He didn't complain.
The Republican Establishment never wanted Akin, and will use this Press generated dustup to refuse him the support they never intended to give him anyway.
They also get Sexually transmitted diseases
No they don’t! the magic uterus also protects against std’s
There is only one bigger supporter of Todd Akin than Senator Claire MCaskill, and that is Jedi-Jones.
Todd Akins is a monumental ignoramus, inarticulate, full of junk science, selfish and apparently too stupid to realize he will be soundly defeated and humiliated.
Senator Claire McCaskill spent $2 million to get this idiot the nomination and apparently the money was well spent. Todd is the only person on earth she could beat.
Insane argument. The RNC and Rove’s group are the ones who’ve denied funding to Akin. His gaffe was not a big deal and would be forgotten in weeks if the campaign was allowed to proceed as normal without the GOP eating their own and throwing away the seat to the Dems. The GOP elites are trying their darnedest to lose this seat. Akin is fighting hard to win it.
the world has seen war babies produced by forcible rape for thousands of years most recently in the former Yugoslavia republic. Rape was at one time, an integral part of war as was pillaging and it’s purpose was to impregnate.
Rush already admitted he carried the GOP's water in 2008 and held back giving his real opinions on McCain in order to help them win. Most of these prominent conservative talkers are in bed with the GOP establishment. I listen to Mike Gallagher and Steve Deace now, guys who refuse to compromise their principles or deny the truth just because the GOP establishment asks.
Is that you Claire McCaskill?
“McCaskill: Damn These Conservatives Trying to Deny Todd Akin the Nomination He’s Earned”
When he said legitimate rape he meant not statuatory 19 yr old boyfriend and his 16 yr old girlfriend, or when a women falsely accuses someone.
Stats do show really low pregnancy rates when raped. High stress is also a reason many women who want to get pregnant can’t get pregnant. Of course many people just want to believe the liberal lies because he is a conservative or is it because he is a Christian? Note, this was published in 1999.
Rape Pregnancies Are Rare
John C. Willke, M.D.
Life Issues Connector, April 1999, Reprinted with permission
CLR NOTE: View the CLR statement dated August 21, 2012, on the Akin controversy by clicking here.
First, let’s define the term “rape.” When pro-lifers speak of rape pregnancies, we should commonly use the phrase “forcible rape” or “assault rape,” for that specifies what we’re talking about. Rape can also be statutory. Depending upon your state law, statutory rape can be consensual, but we’re not addressing that here.
A relatively new category is “date rape.” For some reason this is supposed to be different, but, forcible rape is rape, regardless of whether it occurs on a date or behind the bushes. If a college woman is raped on a date, she should undergo a medical examination and treatment, just as she would in the aftermath of an assault rape. It is not a separate category.
Assault rape pregnancies are extremely rare. Most pro-lifers have heard this comment, but too often cannot back it up with facts. A candidate for office in the State of Arkansas made this comment before the last elections. He was roundly criticized and ridiculed by the opposing candidate and the media. Unfortunately, there was no evidence that he offered substantive proof to back up his claim that rape pregnancies were rare.
How many forcible rapes result in a pregnancy? The numbers claimed have ranged the entire spectrum of possibilities. Some feminists have claimed as high as 5 to 10 percent, which is absurd. One problem has been the lack of available studies and accurate statistics. Often women do not admit to having been raped. On the other hand, it has been known that women, pregnant from consensual intercourse, have later claimed rape. Is it possible to know the actual facts?
There have been some studies. In the statistical abstract of the US in 1989, there were 90,000 rapes reported in the United States. (Bureau of Census Table #283)
Another study was from the U.S. Justice Department, which surveyed 49,000 households annually between the years 1973-1987. In 1973, it reported 95,934 completed rapes. In 1987, the figure was 82,505. The study stated that only 53% were reported to police. Factoring this in, the totals were 181,000 rapes in 1973 and 155,000 in 1987. In August 1995, the US Justice Department, using a different study with different questions, returned a result of 170,000 completed rapes plus 140,000 attempted rapes.
There are approximately 100,000,000 females old enough to be at risk for rape in the United States. If we calculate on the basis of 100,000 rapes, that means that one woman in 1,000 is raped each year. If we calculate on the basis of 200,000 rapes, that means that one woman in 500 is raped each year.
Now for the important question. How many rape pregnancies are there? The answer is that, according to statistical reporting, there are no more than one or two pregnancies resultant from every 1,000 forcible rapes.
But, does it make sense? Let’s look, using the figure of 200,000 rapes each year.
Of the 200,000 women who were forcibly raped, one-third were either too old or too young to get pregnant. That leaves 133,000 at risk for pregnancy.
A woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days (perhaps 5) out of a 30-day month. Multiply our figure of 133,000 by three tenths. Three days out of 30 is one out of ten, divide 133 by ten and we have 13,300 women remaining. If we use five days out of 30 it is one out of six. Divide one hundred and thirty three thousand by six and we have 22,166 remaining.
One-fourth of all women in the United States of childbearing age have been sterilized, so the remaining three-fourths come out to 10,000 (or 15,000).
Only half of assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm in her vagina,1 so let’s cut the remaining figures in half. This gives us numbers of 5,000 (or 7,500).
Fifteen percent of men are sterile, that drops that figure to 4,250 (or 6,375).
Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600 (or 5,400).
Another fifteen percent are on the pill and/or already pregnant. That reduces the number to 3,070 (or 4,600).
Now factor in the fact that it takes 5-10 months for the average couple to achieve a pregnancy. Use the smaller figure of 5 months to be conservative and divide the avove figures by 5. The number drops to 600 (or 920).
In an average population, the miscarriage rate is about 15 percent. In this case we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate will be higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If 20 percent of raped women miscarry, the figure drops to 450 (or 740).
Finally, factor in what is certainly one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant, and that’s physical trauma. Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get and stay pregnant a woman’s body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain that is easily influenced by emotions. There’s no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows, but this factor certainly cuts this last figure by at least 50 percent and probably more. If we use the 50 percent figure, we have a final figure of 225 (or 370) women pregnant each year. These numbers closely match the 200 that have been documented in clinical studies.
So assault rape pregnancy is extremely rare. If we use the figure of 200, it is 4 per state per year. Even if we use a figure of 500, we’re talking about only ten per state, per year. In the United States in one year, there are more than 6 million pregnancies. Roughly 3 million eventuate in live birth, 1.5 million are aborted and 500,000 miscarry. And so while each assault rape pregnancy is a tragedy for the mother (not for the baby, though), we can with confidence say that such pregnancies amount to a minuscule fraction of the total annual pregnancies in the United States. Further, less than half of assault rape pregnancies are aborted, even though that course of action tends to be vigorously pushed by those around the woman. 2,3
One final thought, Sandra Mahkorn, in two excellent studies, has asked such women what was their chief complaint? One might fully assume it was the fact that she was pregnant, but that is incorrect. Her chief complaint was how other people treated her. Such treatment ranged from negative, to simply getting little support from those around her. Even in a culture that offers little support and aggressively pushes abortion as a solution, fewer that half of such babies are killed by abortion. Think of how many fewer yet there would be if each pregnant victim of a rape were given the support, aid and tender loving care that she and her baby deserve.
Our goal is to offer truly compassionate care to the woman. That is what is best for both mother and child.
1 New England Journal of Medicine, A.N. Groth, Sexual DyFORBESSunction [sic] During Rape, Oct. 6, 1977, p.764-6
2 Mahkorn & Dolan, “Sexual Assault & Pregnancy.” In New Perspectives on Human Abortion, University Publisher of Amer., 1981, pp.182-199
3 Mahkorn, “Pregnancy & Sexual Assault.” In Psychological Aspects of Abortion, University Publishers of Amer., 1979, pp. 53-72
By J. C. Willke, MD,
reprinted with permission from 4/99 Life Issues Connector
Life Issues Institute
http://www.lifeissues.org
Article Shortcut: http://www.christianliferesources.com?5068
Tis the republicans fault for letting him get the nomination the way I see it. Sure, Claire gave money and swayed dem voters to vote for him but what happened to the all knowing Roves, RNC, RSC, etc? They should have seen this coming and pumped money into the candidate they wanted. Do they themselves not know how important a senate seat is?
He is now the candidate and nothing short of death or resignation will change it, so support him or give up. He can be reconstituted and it will take lots of money and an aggressive crew to do it.
Have been around FR for a few years and I have seen constant complaints about R’s that won’t fight, what a pussy, grow a pair. It is now put up or shut up time.
The R’s have done what they have done so well in the past and that is to eat their own.
FIXED
Mitt Romney is a monumental ignoramus, inarticulate, full of liberal opinions, selfish and apparently too stupid to realize he will be soundly defeated and humiliated.
Todd Akins is a staunch pro-life conservative with a great voting record and a huge lead over McCaskill before this accidental gaffe. Nothing's occurred here that he can't recover from, if his own party would accept his apology and give him a second chance.
Those would be statutory rapes, the bread and butter of Planned Parenthood.
Do the Pro-Abort PhonyCons realize, that, if they keep whining about Akin not dropping out....the Pro-Life Conservative voters (already leery of Romney) will withhold their vote for Romney?
No Pro-Life Conservative is going to tolerate this continued attacks on Akin from the Pro-Abort wing of the party
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