Agreed. The comment was stupid on too many levels.
Another relevant exemplary factoid:
Genghis Kahn is an ancestor of 0.5% of the world’s population - and not for being a seductive Don Juan, nor for fluke of his family tree branching. If you get my drift.
Of course not.
Where in God's name do you get the idea that I, or any other pro-life person, is "ok with rape"?
The truth is:
1. The so-called Justice Department is about the last institution I would trust anymore. It has been obscenely politicized.2. Anybody can make up statistics to try to slant any argument.
3. And this is most important:
"Rape" is a red herring, used dishonestly by Leftists in their argument in order to OVERTURN all states' laws about abortion.
Do you know how states used to deal with this issue, before Roe v. Wade was forced on the entire nation by Judicial fiat?
Before Roe, difficult cases (e.g. medical issues causing a threat to the life of the mother; or rape) went before a medical board of qualified doctors. The doctors on the board would weed out which cases were "real" ... and which were not.
What we have now, as a result of Roe (and its companion case Doe v Bolton), is legalized murder of pre-born children for ANY reason and at ANY time throughout pregnancy.
And guess what? We are almost the only nation in the world that permits this wholesale slaughter of babies, for any reason at all. I believe we share that distinction with Communist China.
Thank you for introducing actual numbers into the discussion, vet7279. Those numbers are based on some percentage of victims receiving emergency contraception, which would lower the pregnancy rate. And a substantial percentage of victims are already using oral contraceptives or perhaps an IUD, so what is the pregnancy rate among non-contraceptive using victims?
It’s 32,000 rape-related pregnancies though, not 1500, isn’t it?
Shhrub, if you know a medical study showing that trauma reduces the conception rate, please provide a link.