[Republican1795.]

Well sorry to burst your bubble but rape pregnancies are in fact quite rare. Rape Pregnancies are Rare. This Rudd claims that there "is no evidence" but he is simply IGNORING the said evidence. That is an old propaganda trick. Like the government's old but hilarious "swamp gas" cant.

[PhxTM06]

How did I know this was going to be the same discredited Willke nonsense that has been posting 1000 times over here already. Willke has no credibility in the medical community, he's conducted no studies, has no lab work, nothing to back up any of his claims. Nice try.

Nobody is arguing that rape pregnancies are rare, but not as rare as Willke tries to claim. Women have about a 5% chance of getting pregnant as a result of rape. There's anywhere from 15,000-30,000 women a year that end up pregnant as a result of rape. Those numbers have been clearly established by a variety of studies while Willke....well, he's like that little old man at the corner health shop telling you that colloidal silver will cure your hepatitis.

His ideas derived from the 1970s and earlier, back when people still thought that when a woman got raped, she was "secretly asking for it." Just more old wives tales that survive because people keep going back to the same ignorance.

[DoughtyOne]

I hate to burst your bubble, but when it comes to medicine you can almost always find conflicting studies.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-08/rape-results-more-pregnancies-not-less

[Mach9]

Thank you for “Rape Pregnancies are Rare.” Very similar to the info available during the Roe v. Wade debates. Still, I wonder if stats haven’t changed since the onslaught of the sexual revolution. The trauma for a virgin has to be significantly different from the trauma of a Sandra Fluck.

[patriciaruth]

rape pregnancies are in fact quite rare

Is that because doctors in the ER routinely give rape victims a morning after pill as well as antibiotics?