“Yet anyone reading his statement knows what Akin meant. He was saying that in an actual rape – from what doctors have told him – the likelihood of pregnancy is rare.”
I thought he meant that, in a “legitimate” rape, pregnancy is rare because the body magically determines whether a woman has consented in a sexual encounter and shuts down her monthly cycle down when it knows that the woman has been violated.
But that would have been stupid psuedo-scientific garbage, not something PAT BUCHANAN would ever make apologies for, so obviously I got it wrong.
No, he meant that, as he understood it from doctors, the stress of a forcible rape makes a conception less likely to occur than in a consensual encounter. Could be wrong, but it's a reasonable and plausible theory.