> LOOK IT UP. It’s about 5%.
The study you’re referring to is the 1996 report.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248
5% is NOT rare when you consider that there are other studies which tag the pregnancy rate for a single instance of consensual sex at around 2-4%.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/wp5cnp43k6byxj4d/
> AND part of that 5% is due to women who LIED about being raped and got away with it.
Yeah? where’s your source for that one? And even if half the rapes were misreported, the rate of pregnancy is comparable with rates from consensual sex.
Human women don’t have duck vaginas.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11764-female-ducks-fight-back-against-raping-males.html
There is ZERO credible evidence to claim that there’s anything about the female anatomy to suggest that it can “shut down” pregnancy in response to rape.
Unless you would like to point to one?
Why am I so pissed off? Because I have a dear friend who was brutally raped at age 14, bore a child she gave up for adoption, and she’s spent a lifetime overcoming corrosive and ignorant BLAME aimed at her from JERKS like Akin and the quack Wilke.
If your goal is to ensure that the innocent child created through rape isn’t destroyed, GUESS WHAT, you DON’T deny the reality of the victim by claiming that she “really wanted it” because she got pregnant. Got it?
So.... does a woman get pregnant every time she has sex? If not, why not ?
Why am I so pissed off?
I had a feeling you were getting that way, and I did not mean to provoke that rage.
Because I have a dear friend who was brutally raped at age 14, bore a child she gave up for adoption, and she’s spent a lifetime overcoming corrosive and ignorant BLAME aimed at her from JERKS like Akin and the quack Wilke.
SO... you are saying that a close friend was raped (what... 20 30 years ago?) and Akin's remark made the whole thing resurface? Because of a mistranslation of LEGITIMATE RAPE ? Because Akin stated that a human female's body can and often rejects insemination and prevents fertilization, especially in the case of rape? Because , SOMEHOW, the fact that your friend's body DIDN't reject the insemination means IMPLIES that she WANTED to get pregnant? Now THAT is RIDICULOUS. No one thinks that way, and I would suggest you quit thinking that way, or at least don't say it to your friend.
I understand and sympathize with your feelings for your friend and her awful experience. May I ask how upset is SHE over Akin's remarks?
If your goal is to ensure that the innocent child created through rape isn’t destroyed, GUESS WHAT, you DON’T deny the reality of the victim by claiming that she “really wanted it” because she got pregnant.
I get it. You seem to be misconstruing his comments (just like most of the public) and reading into his comments something that was only 'there' because of your friends long-ago experience.
How many people that know you and your friend make nasty remarks about her rape/abortion ?
Since your friend did not have an ABORTION, did not LIE about being RAPED, how does her situation even compare to Akin's comment ?