Well...It's not a magical power. It is part of the design of the human body. You can force food (like boiled cabbage) down my throat, but since I can't stand the taste, my stomach won't produce much digestive acid, so most of the food just passes through.
Pregnancies from LEGITIMATE RAPES are actually very rare.
LOOK IT UP. It's about 5%. AND part of that 5% is due to women who LIED about being raped and got away with it.
...and that is the real UNSPOKEN offense that is behind the AKIN HANGING MOB.
By his use of the words LEGITIMATE RAPE he implied that WOMEN LIE about being RAPED. AND THAT is why he is being 'gang-raped' by the Public and MSM. Women don't like being called liars, especially when they can avoid responsibility for their 'act' by claiming rape. AND THEY WANT THAT OPTION kept open.
Now, before I get flamed, may I say that men are just as likely to be liars (when it suits a purpose), who have the convenience of not being the ones who becomes pregnant.
Take your biology/abortion/rape thesis and try selling it to the American public. I’m betting a huge majority won’t buy it.
And there in lies the problem, i.e. spinning, selling, damage control.
Most conservatives refuse to go down with the ship based on the thinking of a few crackpots.
You really think 5% counts as "rare?" What do you think are the odds of getting pregnant from a single act of consensual intercourse?
Don't answer - it doesn't matter. The real problem with Akin's stupid answer is not that he was wrong (which he was,) but that he was asked a very simple question and he couldn't figure out how to either answer it, or to artfully not answer it. It wasn't a hard question, it wasn't a "gotcha." It was a standard, predictable, run-of-the-mill question that is asked of every pro-life candidate everywhere.
If a veteran politician is that dumb, his campaign prospects seem pretty bleak, even against a clown like McCaskill. If he manages to pull out a win, it will be solely due to her negatives.
And this year, of all years, I hate having so much hanging on such a thin thread.
> LOOK IT UP. It’s about 5%.
The study you’re referring to is the 1996 report.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248
5% is NOT rare when you consider that there are other studies which tag the pregnancy rate for a single instance of consensual sex at around 2-4%.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/wp5cnp43k6byxj4d/
> AND part of that 5% is due to women who LIED about being raped and got away with it.
Yeah? where’s your source for that one? And even if half the rapes were misreported, the rate of pregnancy is comparable with rates from consensual sex.
Human women don’t have duck vaginas.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11764-female-ducks-fight-back-against-raping-males.html
There is ZERO credible evidence to claim that there’s anything about the female anatomy to suggest that it can “shut down” pregnancy in response to rape.
Unless you would like to point to one?
Why am I so pissed off? Because I have a dear friend who was brutally raped at age 14, bore a child she gave up for adoption, and she’s spent a lifetime overcoming corrosive and ignorant BLAME aimed at her from JERKS like Akin and the quack Wilke.
If your goal is to ensure that the innocent child created through rape isn’t destroyed, GUESS WHAT, you DON’T deny the reality of the victim by claiming that she “really wanted it” because she got pregnant. Got it?