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To: MrB

Of course ... but if Mr. Akin had any sense, he’d simply have said, “No child deserves death because of his father’s wrong action. Compassionate care to a woman who has been raped does not include abortion.”

The idea that forcible rape doesn’t often result in pregnancy because of the nature of rape seems to be getting some traction as a “truism,” but I don’t see how that could be based on real science. How would they test the hypothesis? “Here are 100 women, all healthy, fertile, and ovulating right now. Here are 100 men, all in good health with average sperm counts. Now, half the men pick a woman to rape, and half have consensual intercourse. How many pregnancies result in each group of women?”


36 posted on 08/20/2012 1:26:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("A little plain food, and a philosophic temperament, are the only necessities of life."~W. Churchill)
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To: Tax-chick

Yeah, that statement was rather absurd.
Pregnancy results from intercourse, whether consensual or not.


38 posted on 08/20/2012 1:31:49 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Tax-chick

This is starting to have Mark Foley feel to it. One idiot is starting to go national to our detriment. Time for him to be forced out.


42 posted on 08/20/2012 2:00:17 PM PDT by paul544
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