Just kidding.
...trouble is, what Akin said doesn’t in the least resemble his premise...assuming his premise to be the least bit defensible, which I do not...
Charles Jaco:
Okay, so if an abortion can be considered in the case of, say, tubal pregnancy or something like that, what about in the case of rape? Should it be legal or not?”
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.):
Well, you know, uh, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, ‘Well, how do you – how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question.’
It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. You know, I think there should be some punishment but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
Again, here is the reply in question...
Jaco was asking about a woman who was pregnant from the rape, wasn't he?
He was saying whether or not abortion is justified in the case of rape.
Akin answered that in the case of “legitimate rape”, the body has a way “shut that whole thing down”, which as he proved on Hannity, he meant to reduce fertility so that pregnancy never happens.
Also, your repeated harping on cortisol is asinine, miscarriage rates among rape victims are 15-20%, conventional miscarriage rates are 10-20%, so the “x factor” that you’re looking for simply isn’t there, at least not by regular Earth scientific standards.