People aren’t outraged by his saying that pregnancies due to rape are rare.
They’re outraged by him saying that if a woman is “legitimately” raped her body will prevent her from getting pregnant (with the obvious implication that if you get pregnant from a rape, you’re probably lying about being raped).
And I think Akin meant everything he said.
Get Steelman or one of the others in there, and all of this goes away.
Well, I didn't take away that. Yes, it was a stupid use of the word "legitimate" and he's going to have to go, so not to distract the whole campaign season. But I think he was merely going for a distiction about -forcible- rape, as opposed to statutory or other situations. I have seen those stories too, that women are more likely to conceive in voluntary sex than in forcible rape-- but I have no idea if that's some kind of urban legend or not. It might be a medically interesting question, but he was still stupid to trot it out in the discussion.