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He is indeed correct. Forcible Rape does not produce many pregnacies. He said “legitimate” but clearly meant “forcible” which is indeed different than date rape where some gal gets drunk and her date takes advantage of her. He was clearly defending his stance on abortion. I don’t know what you guys are going crazy about. This is exactly the pavlov dog reaction where conservatives jump out to eviscerate a very obvious mistatement by one of our own simply because the left are screaming. Grow a spine folks. Akin may decide to drop out but this is no less recoverable than any Democrat stupidity most of which they actually believe. No one in their right mind should believe Todd Akin thinks rape is trival and those upset about his choice of words should be even more upset at the left which has worked very hard to turn unborn children into blobs of cells in the hope of making abortion more acceptable.

Outside of intitial post treatment to try to prevent possible pregnacy in the case of rape I find the idea that abortion is beneficial to the psyche of the woman beyond that questionable. There have been studies that show the emotional state of the women during inner course do affect fertility. There is one study that suggests that claims rape somehow produces more pregnacies but it really doesn’t make sense. Women only ovulate at certain times and in a very narrow window. Do rapists some how have a heightened ovulation sense? Again we don’t know. That said I would hope you folks would do more than just jump the gun on this stuff. Aiken isn’t our enemy. He did step into a trap. Let’s not cut off his leg yet and fall over ourselves rushing to trash him. All you are doing is affirming the false narrative.

Also the actually numbers on pregnacies resulting from rape is very small. All we have are estimates based on very limited samples and those estimates from left wing orgs always attempt to inflate the numbers whereas we could expect a deflation from conservatives. That is the problem with science and politics collide.

Here is one article that attempts to arrive at an estimate. I believe it is a very low estimate.

http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/rape-pregnancies-are-rare-461

Here’s a source that would suggest a greater number.
http://www.rapetraumaservices.org/rape-sexual-assault.html

There are a lot of variables but from the numbers I’ve been playing around with the numbers of pregnancies resulting from rape in the US could be as high as 50,000 a year or as little 1,000. The problem is the variables. The high number factors in unreported rapes assuming only 16% are reported which sounds like a low number to me. This is also trying to take into account the fertility age band. This doesn’t try to estimate how many women are using birth control at the time of rape etc.

I did some some additional checking and the Guttmacher Institute in 2004 reported that 1.5% of women aborting their babies said it was due to rape and incest. If this is true then the number could be 12,500 out of 825,000. I doubt that the Guttmacher institute under reported and believe this number is closer to the truth.

If someone else has better numbers have at it.

He didn’t say that rape doesn’t produce “few pregnancies”, he went out with his idiot mumbo-jumbo claiming that the woman’s body has some sort of magic process to shutdown pregnancy from happening.

How he got into that whole conversation is beyond me. He could have simply reiterated his support for life and left it at that, but he went into the same sort of sandtrap that Republicans voluntarily wander into and ended up with his foot in his mouth.

He’s not the first to make statements along the lines of “well, women don’t get aroused/don’t get lubricated/don’t get excited so they can’t be pregnant while being raped.”

It’s a loser issue every single time and these people need to stop shooting themselves in the foot like they’re being paid good money for it. Regardless of what his actual intent or meaning was, his words will be everywhere, and if you’re someone who was sitting on the fence, the coming media demonization could be enough to push people towards the Democrat, in this case McCaskill.