asiangrrlMN gives Todd Akin the treatment he deserves over at my joint:
I’m so mad I could stab someone with my rusty pitchfork™
And by someone, I mean Rep. Todd Akin (R – Complete Jackholetown). By now, it’s all over the Twitter Machine what this asshole has said about ‘legitimate rape’ and pregnancy. Here is the quote:
It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare [pregnancy from rape]. If it’s a legitimate rape, uh, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. You know, I think that there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.
First of all, Imma need the names of those doctors Akin mentioned because otherwise, this falls into the category of pulling bullshit out of one’s ass – which is exactly what he’s done. Or, he’s reading too much of this and/or this. The first link is for a website of purported pro-forced-birther physicians, so it’s conceivable that they are the doctors Akin so cavalierly dropped into the interview. If you don’t want to dip yourself in the filth, the link basically throws out a bunch of stats and crams them into a preconceived notion. In other words, utter bullshit. A 1996 study has shown that 5% of rapes result in pregnancy. Here’s a link to the abstract of the study. Please note, roughly 32,000 pregnancies from rape a year occur, according to the study.. Contrary to Akin’s bullshit, that is not ‘really rare’, and I doubt the numbers have substantially changed since then. Understandably, it’s not easy to determine exactly how many pregnancies are a result of rape, but I will take the numbers from the study over the bullshit fantasy numbers from Physicians for Life any day.