Akin is an engineer and not an idiot. He just isn’t good looking or have a lot of hair, or the morals of most politicians.
All he did was make known what he understood to be true.
‘from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare.’
Dr. Fred Mecklenburg MD
Dr. John C. Willke, M.D.
Dr. Eugene F. Diamond, MD
“Eugene F. Diamond, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Past Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, wrote in the “To the Editor” section of the April 11, 1985 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine:
Pregnancy is rare after a single act of forcible rape. In a prospective study of 4000 rapes in Minnesota, there were no pregnancies. In a retrospective study covering nine years in Chicago, there were no pregnancies. In a prospective study of 117 rapes there were no pregnancies among either the 17 victims who received DES or the 100 who did not.”
http://www.christianliferesources.com/news/rape-pregnancy-and-the-akin-controversy-8741
http://www.hli.org/index.php/cloning/266?task=view
http://www.hli.org/index.php/cloning/685?task=view
Feb 18, 2009
“Legitimate” Rape victim says:
“I was forcibly raped in 2001. It happened while I was ovulating. I was scared to death that I would become pregnant. When I asked the physician what my chances of being pregnant, he handed me a AMA journal that highlighted a study done in 1999. That study was done concerning all the reported rape cases in Minnesota. Not a single case resulted in a pregnancy. I also did not get pregnant, and thankfully I didn’t get an STD either.
I now work in a rape recovery center in a major city. I have met with women who claim to have gotten pregnant while raped. These women tend to be 16 or 17 year old girls with their parents standing over them. When I get them alone and they open up, all of them said the sex was consensual. They were going through the motions because they didn’t want to upset their parents. In the last 6 years, I have never seen a true rape case result in pregnancy.”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090218150126AAsqUQu
If have been forced to forgive Romney for his actual political positions... I can sure as heck forgive Akin.
Newer studies show a 5% rate of pregnancy in cases of rape, so relatively rare but not exceedingly, however that wasn't the core issue of contention.
He was tone deaf using the crass phrase "legitimate rape." Worse he claimed there was a physical mechanism of the female body that was prevent pregnancy.
The "DES" in the study you link to is Diethylstilbestrol, which was approved as a postcoital contraceptive in emergencies, like rape cases, in the mid 1970s.
No.it was his choice of words. thats all.