Are you sure you know what you’re talking about?
I’ve known of quite a few people who had trouble conceiving until they gave up hope. The stress of anxiety had an impact on their fertility. That’s anecdotal evidence and there could be other explanations, obviously, but these claims can be found in literature all over the place. Somebody posted about a study that found that stress can impact the implantation process. I would imagine that studies regarding the impact of fight-or-flight chemistry - adrenaline, etc - would come into play here too.
Is everybody basing their claim that his comment was uninformed on the scholarly studies, or on emotional politics and agitprop? That’s my concern.
Most victims of rape are younger women who are much less likely to have problems with conception whereby “stress” is going to be a major factor.
Many thousands of children are conceived due to rape every year - make an argument that they should not be aborted (as 50% of them are) - don't try to make an argument that they don't exist or shouldn't exist based upon the idea that if the rape was “legitimate” and a real stress then the woman should have miscarried - that is idiotic.
Even Akin abandoned that line of reasoning - but the “shut the whole thing down” gang goes on in self righteous and self serving ignorance.
The problem is the way he expressed himself both in his original statement and in his later remarks. His oxymoron “legitimate rape.” really takes the cake. That’s a bit like “ lawful murder.”