The statistics show that there is a statistically significant decrease in the presence of pregnancies following forcible rape. There is no way to scientifically determine the exact explanation. The fact is that events like this can cause significant hormonal imbalances in women as with any serious traumatic event. This could be the explanation. Another explanation could be prayer. The fact is that there is statistical evidence to show an anomaly. Akin's theory to explain that anomaly is as valid as anyone else's.
I am not willing to throw a man who has been fighting for decades for conservative causes and principles under the bus because he can't adequately explain a statistical anomaly that nobody else can. There have been scientific postulations as to the cause, but there is simply no scientific method to prove or disprove it.
Frankly I believe that the statistical anomaly may simply be that God intervenes in many cases in answer to intercessory prayer. But then I actually believe in God and believes that he intervenes in the lives of those who believe and pray to him.
I also believe in miracles but that is a COMPLETELY different topic.
That's all we need to know. Once it is established that pregnancies after violent rapes happen at less frequency than pregnancies within relationships and/or with consent, then Akin has been affirmed.
The presence of the statistic indicates that we are dealing with no myth.
In fact, there's a real sense to the idea that couples in consenting relationships are more likely to become pregnant. That just makes sense.
That doesn't mean there are NO pregnancies after violent rape, but it does mean that SOMETHING accounts for a lower incidence of pregnancy.
Our Cino/Rino public talking heads, though, have thrown a good, solid, Christian conservative under the bus over one weak statement. Worse than with Christine O'Donnell, who THEY unrelentingly undercut, they are sacrificing a legislator with significant credentials and track record.
I'm thinking they don't want non-manipulable, Christian conservatives in their party. I'm extremely disappointed in Sarah Palin for the 2nd time in a year's span. The first is when she played coy far too long about not entering the race. Now, there's her self-defeating remarks about running a 3rd party candidate with no thought whatsoever to at least looking into a situation with a good man. She wouldn't toss her Todd under the dogsled; she shouldn't toss this Todd under the bus.