[Post Toasties]

Your argument is invalid because your position depends on using pregnancy as a litmus test as to whether rape actually occurred. Problem is, there is often corroborating evidence that points to a sexual assault in these instances.

In such a case, you apparently would have predetermined that it wasn't a rape after all. That'll never sell to the non-Taliban crowd.

[butterdezillion]

That’s not what is being said.

We need a Logic 101 class around here.

[UCANSEE2]

Your argument is invalid because your position depends on using pregnancy as a litmus test as to whether rape actually occurred.

The whole argument centers around ABORTION. That is what the HOST was asking Akin about. That is what his response was about. No need for ABORTION if you are not pregnant. IMHO, very few women who have consensual, unprotected sex claim RAPE unless they get pregnant. What would be the point ? I think you argued yourself into a paper bag and can't find your way out.

Problem is, there is often corroborating evidence that points to a sexual assault in these instances.

Well darn. You got me there. In cases of rape with no pregnancy, it is true that corroborating evidence, such as semen in the womb or damage to the vagina does point to an actual sexual assault. Why is it that these cases you speak of don't produce a pregnancy? According to the 'public opinion' observed on this thread, all rapes resort in pregnancy. THAT IS the IMPLICATION, is it not ? THAT IS what you and others claim AKIN was wrong about.