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To: JustSayNoToNannies
"Unbeknownst to them, rapists clearly target victims based on their likelihood of conception.

So then, even though rapists are subconsciously obstetricians privy to their victims' ovulation schedules, they are still only impregnating 1% of their victims. All that subconscious advantage over couples not trying to get pregnant, and that's the best they can do???

399 posted on 08/21/2012 4:26:14 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

The article seems to also state that the woman’s body has a reproductive strategy and “a way to shut the whole thing down.” But the author of the article says not for reasons Akin thinks. If you can get past the evolution and atheistic theory from the links, it seems they agree.


401 posted on 08/21/2012 5:29:36 PM PDT by Herbster
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To: Uncle Chip
[Text omitted by Uncle Chip: 'most rapes occur in women under 25, and pre-pubescent girls, post-menopausal women and visibly pregnant women are statistically underrepresented among female rape victims, according to Gordon Gallup, an evolutionary psychologist at SUNY-Albany who wrote about rape-related pregnancy in The Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans.

'"Rapists don't pick victims at random," Gallup says.] "Unbeknownst to them, rapists clearly target victims based on their likelihood of conception.

So then, even though rapists are subconsciously obstetricians privy to their victims' ovulation schedules

The text you omitted made explicitly clear that your straw man was not the argument being made. Your deceptive misdirection is noted and disapproved.

425 posted on 08/22/2012 4:15:07 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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