32,000 pregnancies as a result of rape per year do not constitute...”rare”.
You obviously didn’t read the whole article - the doctor (notice, this is written by an MD) comes to the conclusion that pregnancy occurs fewer than 500 times per year - and all the calculus is spelled out. He cites clinical studies that put the number at 200.
I’ve read your responses on other threads - if you have some evidentiary basis for you disagreement, please present it.
I have never fathered a child and I have never raped (by any definition) anybody. My only first-hand knowledge comes from my experience in breeding livestock. I know that different forms of stress on the female can severely impact the likelyhood of conception. I do not know if the same is true in humans - but it seems plausable, and this article claims that the effects I have observed in livestock can also be seen in humans.
You're right -- that is a lot.
But where does that 32,000 number come from??? It turns out that those are "self-reported" squishy numbers not hard numbers from police/hospital/medical reports.
Odds are most of that 32,000 came from abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood justifying their federal funding for Medicaid abortions. But since underage girls are the bread and butter of abortion clinics, odds are that those are mostly statutory rape pregnancies that should have been reported to the police as such but aren't.
Even if that's the actual number (and it is actually an estimate from a single study; I'll post some of the abstract from it below), that is still only 1 out of every 187 pregnancies (32,000/6,000,000 annual pregnancies in the US per year = 0.53%, or 1/187). That seems pretty rare to me.
This study suffers from a number of flaws. It is based on telephonic surveys, not medical or police records. The n of 34 is an extremely small sample size on which to be basing any kind of conclusions. The description that most of the victims were adolescents who knew their attackers suggests to me that many of them were involved in statutory rape (in which case it may have been consensual, but was rape under legal definition) or incestuous (which could explain the unusually high abortion rate of this group as compared to rape victims overall; abortion is often used to hide incest from outsiders, allowing the abuse to continue). There are other flaws in this study which I won't bother to go into; the bottom line is that I wouldn't use the "32,000" figure without having a more solid factual basis for it than that study. (And yes, that one flawed study is the only source for that number.)