It doesn’t confirm what he said. Pregnancy from rape is rare because rape is much rarer than consensual sex, and the odds are against getting pregnant from a single instance of intercourse. His theory about a woman’s body having ways of shutting down it it’s rape is nonsense.
When you go to the hospital, they give you drugs to prevent pregnancy.
Nit entirely; elsewise it wouldn't be not uncommon for couples wanting to get pregnant yet never being able to, then deciding to adopt, suddenly get pregnant. {Theory: it's because the pressure is off.}
If it's possible that a simple stress from desiring it could make it difficult, then it is not particularly a big jump to say that something traumatic like rape also could.
If you take the statistics regarding all reported rapes as a whole (keeping in mind that rape continues to be an underreported crime) and take into consideration all the women’s ages; postmenopausal or elderly women or young girls who haven’t reached menses yet along with fertile women who may be on the pill or where she is in her monthly cycle and those rapists who use condoms (and yes some do because they think that keeps them from getting caught) and those rapists who are unable to “complete” and women who are taken to the hospital and given “morning after pills”, then yes, taken as a whole, pregnancy as the result of rape is probably relatively low (depending on who you want to believe – 5% to 1%), but it does happen and has for millenniums. Don’t forget that rape was and still is in some parts of the world used as a weapon of war not only to demoralize the women and their husbands and families but also, for lack of a better word, to “pollute” or change the gene pool as a way to subjugate the defeated.
While it is true to some extent that a woman under a prolonged and extreme amount of stress is more likely to have trouble conceiving or miscarry, there is no biological function that I know of that keeps a woman from getting pregnant or “shutting down” just because she doesn’t want to get pregnant. If that were the case, birth control would be mostly unnecessary. It was a stupid thing for him to say and he deserves to get smacked for it.
Where I take even greater issue with Mr. Aiken’s comment was the term “legitimate” rape.
If by this he meant to say rape vs. women who lie about being raped or would lie about being raped if abortion were only allowed in those circumstances, then he has a point. However that’s not what he said. By using the term “legitimate” rape, whether that’s what he meant or not, he seems to be saying (and rightly or wrongly it will be interpreted that way) that among actual rapes some are more “legitimate” than others, based perhaps on the level of violence or how violently she fought back or whether the woman knew her rapist beforehand, that for instance “date” or acquaintance rape or use of a date rape drug isn’t really “rape-rape” or that a woman who dresses provocatively or invites a date into her home after an evening out and a few drinks was just asking for it, then IMO he is a bigger idiot for saying that than for saying few rapes result in pregnancy.