Thank you for this info.
But, again, we might know what he said, but the ideas which he intended to convey (obviously botched) still remain obscure. What exactly was he trying to argue?
“What exactly was he trying to argue?”
He was being questioned about his stand on being anti- abortion even in cases of rape and incest. He was trying to defend his stance by his ‘legitimate rape’ explanation implying that rape victims have some hormonal ‘shut-down’ system to prevent them from becoming pregnant by the rapist.
Not that I’m subscribing to the idea of ‘legitimate rape,’ but Mona Charen had an interesting column recently about the role of stress and pregnancy.
http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2012/08/24/akin_and_his_critics/page/full/
As an example, men watching their team win a game had higher testosterone levels than the guys whose team lost.
From her article:
“Though dismissed as a myth for some time, the role of stress in infertility is being reconsidered now by specialists. Dr. Margareta D. Pisarska, co-director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles told WebMD that “it’s becoming more and more important, in terms of what studies we do, to focus our efforts on the physiological effects of stress and how they may play a role in conception.”