Thank you for providing those links. I have honored that by ensuring I read both.
In the FIRST, Akin remarks are: “He went on to add that “there is no rape” that is legitimate, and that it’s a “heinous crime”.
THIS IS THE KEY to the whole controversy. Every one with a smitten of intelligence knows exactly what he meant by the words LEGITIMATE RAPE. The REST of the public apparently wants to CLAIM that the word LEGITIMATE , as used, implied that RAPE WAS OK. That is what he is apologizing for , and I concede your argument that he ‘apologized’, albeit only for the public’s ignorance.
On to the second ‘source article’, it would seem that most of the opinions on that thread agree with the lower fertility rate during rape.
The FACTS back that up. Again, here is one source, among many, that show the same thing. Take the time to read it, if you will.
Facts of Life: Chapter 3: Exceptions for Abortion: The Rarity of Pregnancies Resulting from Rape and Incest
http://www.hli.org/index.php/cloning/266?task=view
” about 0.8 percent of all women who are raped actually become pregnant as a result of the act.”
Amen. And this does not take into account those women who were raped shortly after having consensual sex with their husbands or boyfriends. In those cases who's the father? The husband/boyfriend or rapist/s?
This topic hits close to home for me. I was once married to a woman whose first born was the result of a rape. At the ripe old age of fifteen (and no... I wasn't married to her when she was fifteen) a man living down the street took a gun to my ex-wife and raped her. She was a virgin. She got pregnant and carried the child to term. When I married my now ex-wife she still had that beautiful little girl with her. My ex-step daughter is an awesome, productive member of society and I thank God daily that she wasn't murdered by her mother while in the womb. However... Putting all of that aside none of this has anything to do with the price of tea in China or what obama is doing to our country.
People.... Please. Akin's record confirms that he is a good Conservative Christian man with America's best interests in mind. His sticktoitiveness in this situation that has besieged him because of the ignorance of so many graduates of public schools is an even greater example of his worthiness to serve in the US Senate. Missourians need to rally behind this man and show the lib-tards and mealy mouthed "moderates (aka wolves/demoncraps in sheeps clothing - RINOs)" that we are not going to take it anymore. We are NOT going to lie down and go silently into the night. The fight is on.
God is quoted as saying, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
No nation in history has been called a "Christian nation" except the United States of America. Jesus Christ is God. As a nation we are called by His name. I pray the legal citizens of this nation will repent and seek God's face and let Him heal our land.
Akin did nor said nothing wrong.
He actually apologized for the wrong part of his statement.
Akin should have known he was getting into something he couldn’t explain, “from what I understand from doctors, it’s really rare”.
That’s a prediction on probability no one could know the answer to. Not your link, not his doctors, and certainly not Akin.
I now better understand why it is so offensive on top of the point of Akin having a ‘Mr Know-it-all’ issue. Thanks for the help.