The title of the thread should be “Rape Pregnancies Are Rare”. Please correct it if you can, mods.
The Mrs. and I have been trying to get pregnant for 6 months now, and all I can say is that getting pregnant is hard! There is a very small window of time that an egg can be fertilized and properly settle into the lining of the uterus. Compound that with stress from work and difficulty in the timing of intimacy, and I fear it’ll be impossible.
I’ve had more of an education in the last 6 months on the female reproductive system than I ever had in school.
I don’t know the specifics behind it, but I do understand that the body goes through myriad changes when under stress/duress, and one of them is to increase specific hormones that have been linked to miscarriages.
So while it’s not necessarily true that EVERY rape would go without a fertilized ovum, if enough stress hormones are released to cause a woman’s body chemistry to go out of whack, I don’t see how it’s unfeasible that the egg would either not latch onto to the uterine lining, detach from it, or miscarry after a certain time.
Also, has anyone considered that many rapists are “smart” enough to use condoms? Statutory rape, fine I understand that’s probably some dumb kids who didn’t pay attention in sex ed and didn’t wrap it up, but someone who wants to commit a forcible felony and not be caught, I would think, would be smart enough to carry rubbers. Am I off base in that way of thinking?