The saddest thing about this stumble is that the liberal interrogators will take Akin’s statement and slap every R candiate with it. “What do you think about Mr. Akin’s statement concerning the rape of women being okay because they can’t get pregnant?” (that is the way they will phrase it of course). Oh how I wish that the people of MO had listened to Sarah.
And you believe everything on that pro-abortion ( http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/tag/abortion/ ) site you link to?
No, the author of that site has a pro-abortion agenda, and is skewing what Akin said to promote her agenda.
For example, that author says that the abortion-cancer link is “long disproven.” Not so. There is evidence that those who have abortions have higher rates of breast cancer: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/17/abortion-has-caused-300k-breast-cancer-deaths-since-roe/
The author also mischaracterizes what Akin meant by “legitimate” rapes. We understand him to have meant “assault rapes” as opposed to mere accusations of rape.
The author of that hit-piece states with alarm that one of the footnoted studies is “about sexual dysfunction among rapists,” and not about psychic trauma. Um. Yeah, that footnote supported a contention early in the Physicians For Life article unrelated to psychic trauma.
The question is this: Does “psychic trauma” affect pregnancy rates among victims of “assault rape”? It may.
The larger question is this: Should babies who have been conceived through rape be aborted/killed?