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I've heard this too that a woman is less likely to conceive as a result of a rape due to the physical and emotional stress, but it does happen. I think all he was trying to say by "legitimate rape" is whether it was an actual forcible rape. Are there such things as illegitimate rapes, i.e. false accusations, I think there are. "Simply to sulk and make her life miserable for days should she refuse to have sex", gee, so if my wife wants to do something and I don't want to and I consent to it merely because I fear she might sulk and shut me down on sex for a few weeks is that reverse rape?
Rep. Todd Akin has, unwittingly to be sure, harmed the pro-life movement, his senatorial race in Missouri, the Republican Party, and therefore quite possibly the nation.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later, will write or say something inappropriate. The game of "gotcha" that the media play -- especially with regard to Republicans and conservatives -- is what makes so many politicians sound robotic when they speak.
But Congressman Akin said something that cries out for condemnation and retraction -- and necessitates an explanation.
On a Missouri TV program Sunday, he was...
All of that said, abortion is abortion, regardless of how the woman got pregnant. It is an atrocity that a child ought to be killed just because the mother finds it inconvenient. I won't claim "empathy" for rape...