[TigersEye]

So, you’re going with a)A woman’s reproductive system is not affected by stress? Not at all? Ever? That is the only way that would make Akin completely wrong isn’t it?

[PhxTM06]

Read his statement again, he was referring to a woman getting pregnant in the first place. All pregnant women can go through stress, that's irrelevant, what he was insinuating is that there's some secret hidden function that can differentiate between rapist sperm and normal sperm. It's something that started as a mainstay of the pro-life movement in the 1970s, ended up becoming entirely discredited but some of the old-timers are still spouting off on this old time nonsense.

All he should have said was "I don't feel that the baby deserves to be punished more harshly than the actual rapist" and then shut up and moved on. He'd still be up close to 10 points today.