To: marygonzo
Mary Mary, quite contrary, if you picked up a book and read something you wouldn't sound so scary.
If a womans ovaries have already released an egg, shes just as likely to get pregnant from a rape as she would be from a voluntary encounter, Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president for health policy at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told NBC News. From the biological standpoint, a woman is at risk for pregnancy if shes at a vulnerable point in her menstrual cycle when the rape occurs.
Dr. Lauren Streicher, an assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.... In response to Akins statement that If its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down, Streicher said, You let me know if you find the doctor that knows how a uterus knows which sperm to ward off.
"That is absolutely false," said Dr. George Attia, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which counts 56,000 members, also called the remarks "medically inaccurate, offensive and dangerous."
"In a Tuesday interview with The Christian Post, Dr. Gene Rudd, an obstetrician-gynecologist who is also senior vice president of Christian Medical & Dental Associations, said there is no evidence that pregnancies are rare among rape victims. "I don't know where [Akins is] coming from, but what he said, there's no basis for it," Rudd explained. Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/rape-pregnancies-not-rare-ob-gyn-says-80369/#UBwIimxuQsBAVBSg.99 "
There are no words for this it is just nuts, said Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School." Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/20/3771226/doctors-dispute-akins-claim-but.html#storylink=cpy
Michael Weaver, an emergency medicine physician at St. Lukes Hospital and medical director of the forensic care program at St. Lukes Health System, said Akin was wrong. To try to be able to say that anyones going to respond in a consistent pattern thats going to limit their probability of becoming pregnant is ridiculous, Weaver said.
52 posted on
08/22/2012 8:17:44 PM PDT by
PhxTM06
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To: PhxTM06
talking science to an idiot is hopeless, unless she is a Kos troll. maybe thats it . nobody can be that stupid.
65 posted on
08/22/2012 8:40:16 PM PDT by
hecht
(restore Hetch-Hetchy, and screw San Francisco and Pelosi)
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