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RE “Todd Akin said that DOCTORS TOLD HIM what he said. If the GOP were a real political party (competent), the GOP would immediately have held a press conference with one or more doctors to say “A-YUP. That’s correct.”

No, a competent political party wouldn't be sending losers like Akin out to blow up their own ships.

If Akin had a single Dr behind himon this crazy stuffv he would have used him to keep that hog from taking that KEY SENATE seat.

He had an easy win and gave it to Dems. And you want more

No, a competent political party wouldn't be sending losers like Akin out to blow up their own ships.

But Democrats do all the time. That's the point of the article. Democrats say far nuttier things all the time. The Democrat Party defends them. The Democrat Party nips these things in the bud. It never becomes a big deal.

Your argument fails to consider that Democrats routinely survive saying far worse things all the time.

Why aren't those Democrats "losers" as you put it? They win re-election. The only "losers" are the Republican party insiders who don't know how to deal with public relations and controversies during campaigns.

If Akin really had a bunch of doctors who agree with this stupid stuff then its his f..ing responsibility to bring them to light to defend him, not the rest of us who have who idea WTF he is talking about.

Akin should have done that. But he was too busy fending off sabotage and attacks from his own Party. It was BOTH the Party's responsibility to win the US Senate seat and Todd Akin's, too. Instead of attacking Todd Akin, the GOP could have gotten that done as well.

If Akin had a single Dr behind himon this crazy stuffv he would have used him to keep that hog from taking that KEY SENATE seat.

They have come forward, but they were not highlighted in a press conference the way the GOP was capable of orchestrating.

It is a medical fact that trauma can delay or suppress ovulation. Thus a woman under going the trauma of a "real" rape (not consensual sex where she later has buyer's remorse, but real trauma) the release of eggs is delayed or suppressed.

You do understand basic reproductive biology, I assume? If ovulation does not occur within 24 to 48 hours of sex, pregnancy is 100% IMPOSSIBLE. Not just rare. IMPOSSIBLE.

So if a rape occurs, and the trauma delays ovulation, then the sperm will no longer be viable by the time the eggs are released. NO PREGNANCY CAN OCCUR - 100% IMPOSSIBLE.

So what "crazy stuff" are you referring to? If a woman has already ovulated less than 48 hours before the rape, pregnancy can happen. But if she has not yet ovulated that month, the trauma will reduce the probability of pregnancy, perhaps down to zero.

So there is no question that what Todd Akin said is medically correct -- although very badly phrased.

The only issue is how incompetent was the political and public relations handling of the issue by the Republican Party.

I do begin to suspect that you -- and probably many people -- do not understand basic biology.

You DO understand, I hope, that pregnancy cannot occur durinb about 87% of the month.... right?

You DO understand, I hope, that pregnancy can only occur during a 3-5 day window during each month... or about 13% to 14% of the total month?

So for pregnancy to result from a rape, the rape would have to occur during that narrow window, only about 13% of the total month.

During consensual sex, a woman's sexual desire peaks in that window, making it more likely than normal for pregnancy to occur from consensual sex. A woman's desire is strongest during that window.

But of course rape would occur completely randomly, without any regard to the woman's fertility window.

And you DO understand, I hope, that a man's sperm only remains alive for about 24 hours, maybe up to 48 hours at the outside, right?

So if a rapists rapes a woman, the sperm will DIE before pregnancy can occur, if the woman ovulates 3 days later. No pregnancy can occur because the sperm will be DEAD before the woman's eggs drop in ovulation.

So if the trauma of rape delays that window of fertility, the probably of pregnancy drops dramatically lower.