“It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
...the point is that the article you posted (which states that acute stress ‘can’ have an impact on conception)...
Those two statements have zero substantive conflict and are nearly identical in content. Akin made no, let me repeat that, NO absolute statement, of any kind, that would indicate to any rational person that he meant that all rapes trigger a stress response in the reproductive system.
I shouldt respond to your unnecessary insult, but here goes — I didn’t say the two statements were in conflict, or in any way inconsistent. Nor did I say that Akin said anything absolutely. All I said is that what Akin said (that pregnancies resulting from rape are ‘really rare’) goes beyond the article you posted (that acute trauma ‘can’ have an unspecified impact).
In any event, what Akin said was entirely unnecessary. You can defend a no-rape-exception policy without reference to how often rape results in pregnancy (and, in fact, the point is irrelevant - abortion is wrong, whether it’s one abortion or ten thousand).