When I was in Catholic school, 7th or 8th grade, in the 1970s, I was told that pregnancies don’t usually result from rape because the woman will miscarry because of the stress. It took a few more years for me to figure out that this was wishful thinking, and would not be a good argument against abortion in cases of rape.
I wonder if this candidate was fed the same line when he was younger, and never re-examined it.
I’d actually never heard that before, about stress curtailing pregnancy from rape. Wouldn’t doubt it might indeed have some merit. Nonetheless, Aiken’s statement leaves an implication that a woman who actually got pregnant via rape might not be a victim of ‘legitimate rape’ (his words), and thus partly responsible for her pregnancy... which strikes me as, um, kinda sick.