[editor-surveyor]

Akin’s answer to the question was both honest, and essentially correct, as far as the biological understanding goes.

You need to look up the facts before you join the electronic lynching.

[Sporke]

“Akin’s answer to the question was both honest, and essentially correct, as far as the biological understanding goes.”

No, it wasn’t. With consenting adults, the pregnancy rate is about 3% at best for any one “encounter”. With a rape, it would be much less than 3%, since some rapes are without vaginal penetration, or even with that, some men don’t “finish”. So..... 1/2% maybe? That’s a guess on my part, since there is no real way of telling.

Akin said women have a biological way of stopping pregnancy from a rape, which is just not true. Pregnancy is rare, for every woman, but biology is biology, and if the lil sperm penetrates the lil egg, the woman is pregnant, period. (or lack of it)

[pilipo]

Akin’s answer to the question was both honest, and essentially correct, as far as the biological understanding goes.

Perhaps, but we're talkin' politics, not Marcus Welby, M.D.