The title of the thread should be “Rape Pregnancies Are Rare”. Please correct it if you can, mods.
All very nice, doesn’t matter. Akin lost all the “feelings” voters with this statement. He’d have had to parse like a lawyer to not do so.
Just let this go and it will be forgotten in a few days. Most of the dust up seems to come from the Right. If Hannity would shut the hell up about it, it would be a blip. But, no. He’s gotta get ratings and so he repeats himself over and over about this non issue.
This will not affect republicans nationally and I still suspect that come November, Missourians will be far more p.o.’ed by the dismal economy and vote McCaskill out.
32,000 pregnancies as a result of rape per year do not constitute...”rare”.
From 1999. Interesting.
SO.... more people are killed in Detroit in a year, than children born from rape ?
This whole controversy extends from the pretended offense by the MSM and Politicians over the word ‘legitimate’, which implied that women would lie about rape.
This is why the ‘reaction’ from the left. They cannot acknowledge ‘facts’ when it comes to dealing with the lies they are so used to telling.
I’m not dumping on the women. God knows men lie all the time. Men and women lie differently, and about different things. These are facts.
The ‘fertility’ of the female womb is an issue when it comes to unwanted pregnancy. In this case, just like abortion, the woman makes the decision. Her body responds.
Again, these are facts. Medical History. As I say, this is a ‘pretended’ offense, meant to hide the truth, which is that opponents to McCaskill are just pawns being thrown away.
The only MISTAKE Akin made was in assuming that the ‘public’ was intelligent enough to avoid being led around by the nose with such a simple and easily verifiable reference, and something that most women experience intimately.
IT HAS BEEN DEBUNKED. Its conclusions have been proven incorrect, as reported in a host of places; nobody, including its author, defends it as legitimate.
Akin should have been astute enough not to have mentioned this in a public forum knowing that the media would spin his words against him.
True or not; this is one of the dumber things to be talking about before an election. It is a gift wrapped present for Dems to use against an opponent.
It fits and reinforces their whole “war on woman” thingy perfectly.
No. We're about to "crucify" him because he didn't cite any article and because he is so tin-eared that he didn't realize how insensitive he sounded.
A politician can respectfully promote a no-exception policy for abortion by stressing the child's right to live. Minimizing the risks of pregnancy to the raped woman is just knee-slapping dumb.
We've got enough dumb in D.C..
Kind of a silly article.
Assumes all rapes are reported, and then uses not particularly logical reasoning to whittle down the numbers more.
OTOH, the 30,000 number for annual rape pregnancies commonly reported is also likely to be seriously flawed.
For it to be accurate, a women must be twice as likely to get pregnant from rape as from an act of consensual intercourse. This seems unlikely. It also requires that 8x as many rapes occur as are reported, which also seems high. Which means these numbers are probably cooked to some extent.
It is almost certain the real number is somewhere between 225 (or 370) and 30,000. We’ll probably never have solid numbers on such a politically charged issue.
Focus people. The proper question is:
Is the best treatment for a rape the murder of a baby?
Want to know the real reason why rape pregnancy is rare?
Because many women use birth control. And those that don’t get treated with post coital contraception. That’s why.
Even if rare, I would still allow women who have been raped to abort. Of course if I had my way, the rapists would be castrated, emasculated, and executed too.
If not, ask the doctors, and women what happened 9 months and less after the Russians.
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This was already posted.
Pregnancies resulting from rape are no different than pregnancies resulting from consensual sex. It either happens or it doesn’t.
Whether or no, Akin was so stupid to fall into this obvious trap that he is unqualified to be a Senator if only because of the political damage he would do. Even his apology didn't address how the baby should not be punished for the crime of the rapist. By his comments, their flaky bases, and his lack of political common sense, he has set the pro-life movement back ten years. For that, you should be as PO'd with him as anyone.
Yet even if he does quit, given the GOP-e, our biggest resulting problem (in addition to the obvious consequences in the polls) is that if Akin should drop out, it will be very difficult to replace him with a conservative candidate and not a RINO. Were he truly so committed to principle as he claims, this is where he could and should make restitution, demanding that he will not relent unless his replacement is an appropriately conservative candidate. I don't see any possibility of that kind of commitment from him, which makes him an breast-beating fraud, and not a moral conservative.
Not as rare as the survival rate of suicidal gunshots to the head.