[Diamond]

I believe that a fair-minded characterization of what he was attempting to say is that the trauma of rape "would build a natural immunity" to "conception" or "pregnancy", resulting from the rape.

The way you phrased it, taken literally, the woman would build a natural immunity to rape (itself), which is much more nonsensical than anything Todd Akin was attempting to convey.

Rape itself is a violent, criminal act that is a different thing altogether from whether or not a child is conceived as a result of that act of violence, and to characterize Akin as stating that the woman would build an immunity to that act of violence itself is an absurd and irresponsible mischaracterization of what he said.

You see how easy it is to misspeak or to garble a word or phrase?

Cordially,

[itsahoot]

You see how easy it is to misspeak or to garble a word or phrase?

Unlike Akin, I will not try repeatedly to explain a grammatical error, especially when it was not a grammatical error that Akin committed.

Goofy McCaskill is up by 10 points today, how is that grammar error working out for us?