The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy 1469
Hugh Pickens writes "James Hamblin, MD writes in the Atlantic that it's unclear how common the misconception that women rarely become pregnant after rape may be, but remarks by Missouri Senatorial nominee Todd Akin that 'if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down' (video) may provide some benefit as a learning opportunity. 'From a holistic perspective, one might hypothesize that a woman's body could respond to the extreme stress and trauma of enduring rape in such a way that she would be physiologically more likely to miscarry (or not to conceive at all),' writes Hamblin. After all there is a multi-million dollar alternative reproductive health market aimed at optimizing an environment for conception so there could be something to a theory that the other, much darker end of that spectrum functions analogously. But that hypothesis doesn't hold, to any relevant degree. A widely-cited 1996 study from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology sampled over 4,000 women and found that the rape-related pregnancy rate was 5.0 percent and studies from other countries have reported the percentage to be even greater."
Re:It's okay (Score:3, Funny)
[citation needed]
Woah woah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What Akin said (Score:5, Funny)
No, what he said was, "even if the pussy's laser beam of justice misses and the woman gets pregnant, she should not be allowed to get an abortion."
What he meant was:
1. "I meant to say that rape sperm is too angry to inseminate an egg."
2. "I meant to say that vaginas are like snapping turtles that will bite off a rapist's penis."
3. "I meant to say 'forcible rape.' You know, like Paul Ryan believes."
4. "I didn't mean 'legitimate rape.' Everyone know that a child from a rape is probably going to end up illegitimate."
5. "By 'legitimate rape," I meant a rape that happens because of Obamacare, which is raping the future for our children...That probably didn't help, did it?"
6. "Wait, the penis has to go in the vagina? Eww, gross."
7. "I truly thought I was on the 'Jackoff Report.'"
8. "I meant to say 'from what I understand from my ass,' not 'doctors.' Easy mistake."
9. "I can pretty much guarantee that I'm infertile and that my balls have shrunk to the size of raisins. Yes, that's what I meant to say."
10. "I meant to say that I support a personhood amendment, you know, like Paul Ryan does. It's pretty much just as evil and ignorant, but it sounds less assholish."
Link, as if you couldn't guess by now: http://rudepundit.blogspot.mx/2012/08/what-todd-akin-meant-to-say-so.html [blogspot.mx]
Re:It's okay (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:'Cause if there's 'legitimate rape' (Score:5, Funny)
Send that clown packing back to the anti-woman nut house he escaped from.
The Ecuadorian embassy is going to get very crowded.
Re:It's okay (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. It's called a marriage license.
Re:Correlation (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like at least a few Republicans have something in common with the Taliban...
One group's a bunch of male, middle-aged fundamentalist religious nutjobs.
The other's based in Afghanistan.
Re:There are no Facts (Score:2, Funny)
Hm... the punishment for rape is transplantation of the embryo, after which you're required to bring it to term and give birth through your penis.
Nah, it would still be cruel to the kid.
Re:And this is tech news (Score:2, Funny)
I like to point out the degradation of society since they let women vote.
It helps me figure out those who don't understand the difference between correlation and causation. It also helps me figure out which one it was that brought the shitty beer though that is another topic for another day.
Re:Nice Political Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
coitus!
Sheldon, is that you?
Re:There are no Facts (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's okay (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's okay (Score:5, Funny)
It definitely is rape if you're using a ten foot pole.