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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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To: JustSayNoToNannies
Hey Justsay..., I did read and appreciate the article. My opinion of it changed afterwards. The author interestingly enough agreed with what Akin erringly said although inadvertently and from a different perspective.

It also confirmed what I thought about that 32,000 rape pregnancies per year figure by calling the number "squishy" because they are "self-reported" rather than hard numbers from hospital and police reports, unless of course they are including statutory rapes from Planned Parenthood records. Then that 32,000 rape pregnancy figure makes more sense.

426 posted on 08/22/2012 4:31:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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