[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.

[tsowellfan]

I like 99% of issues Akin stands for politically.

He seems to be a nice man and I really do feel bad for what has happened to him.

Unfortunately, he did it to himself. He made a mistake. He should have stepped down and just tried to keep his seat he presently holds.

[Diamond]

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.

How exactly do you derive that number from the total number of rapes?