You can't get pregnant from "legitimate rape" -- oh, okay. Thanks Akin!

**ringthree** · 2012-08-20 12:03

Originally Posted by Blarg

The truth about pregnancy rape is probably somewhere in the middle of this guys opinion and science

I have actually done some research into this (for work), and in the case of rape, since a woman is not stimulated, the muscles that usually assist in moving the sperm to the womb and the fallopian tubes do not activate which means that there can be a lower rate of pregnancy in the case of rape.

We are talking about a lower percentage, and not some kind of magical anti-pregnancy thing.

**Byrthnoth** · 2012-08-20 12:07

Heh, I'd like to see the appropriately controlled study that determined that.

**ringthree** · 2012-08-20 12:17

Originally Posted by Byrthnoth

Heh, I'd like to see the appropriately controlled study that determined that.

Actually, it's not that difficult. Pregnancies/Reported Rape.

http://www.pandys.org/articles/rapeandpregnancy.html

You also have to consider that the risk of pregnancy from normal consensual sex is actual a lot lower than most people believe it is.

**Byrthnoth** · 2012-08-20 12:34

Okay, well that wasn't a study nor was a study linked. The probability of conception from consensual sex is fairly low and strongly correlated with age. The probability of rape may also be correlated with age. There's no study attached to the numbers in the article you linked or its references, so I can't say for sure whether they controlled for the obvious factors like age.

**Conrad** · 2012-08-20 13:53

Heard from multiple sources that Akin is planning to release a statement announcing his withdrawl from the Senate race tomorrow.

**tyven** · 2012-08-20 13:54

GOP is cutting funding, even with a 10 point lead in the polls, with no money you are fucked. unfortunately its missouri so they have a nice steady army of retards to plug in his place

**Conrad** · 2012-08-20 13:55

They were the ones who elected a dead guy a decade ago, but in fairness he beat John Ashcroft

**ringthree** · 2012-08-20 13:58

Originally Posted by Skirkle

Heard from multiple sources that Akin is planning to release a statement announcing his withdrawl from the Senate race tomorrow.

Interesting because... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

**Lucavi** · 2012-08-20 14:02

Originally Posted by ringthree

I have actually done some research into this (for work), and in the case of rape, since a woman is not stimulated, the muscles that usually assist in moving the sperm to the womb and the fallopian tubes do not activate which means that there can be a lower rate of pregnancy in the case of rape.

We are talking about a lower percentage, and not some kind of magical anti-pregnancy thing.

Tests showed that about 5% of rapes end up in pregnancy, but we don't know how many of those rapes involved penetration and ejaculation and shit, so yeah.

I hope this guy keeps talking. The more he talks, the better Obama's chances are.

**ringthree** · 2012-08-20 14:03

Oops, wrong thread.

**Conrad** · 2012-08-20 14:05

Originally Posted by ringthree

Interesting because... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...rawal-tomorrow

His advisers, I guess. But there you go.

**ringthree** · 2012-08-20 14:07

Originally Posted by Skirkle

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...rawal-tomorrow

His advisers, I guess. But there you go.

Honestly, that sounds more like hoping than reporting.

His advisers said nothing, just two Repub talking heads.

Does that mean he won't withdraw tomorrow? Who knows, but the evidence is on the side of the guy that is running saying he isn't leaving the race.

And honestly, he has an 8 point lead, and is known for being this conservative. While Missouri isn't Texas, I would at least look at some polls before withdrawing (though I do know the withdrawal date is soon).

**Correction** · 2012-08-20 14:25

Originally Posted by ringthree

Interesting because... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

"I'm not a quitter," Mr. Akin said on Mike Huckabee's radio show, even as he apologized for his comments. "My belief is we're going to move this thing forward. To quote my friend John Paul Jones, 'I've not yet begun to fight.' "

Hard to call a man with that desperate of a comb-over a quitter.
He's definitely losing that fight too, though.

**Xno Kappa** · 2012-08-20 16:46

Wow this shit is pathetic.

Tagus · 2012-08-20 17:00

haha... i don't really know why, but the phrase "legitimate rape" makes me think of this:

**Waraji** · 2012-08-20 17:17

Wish a subgroup of the US would succede from the Union, those only interested in the laws of science & logic. I really wonder how much faster that entity would evolve vs the rest of the world. This race has me extremely agitated with how much nonsense gets popularized. I do agree now more than before that there is a campaign to purposely dumb down the American public. Soon the majority will be nothing more than meat with eyes.

**archibaldcrane** · 2012-08-20 17:30

http://www.rainn.org/images/get-info...rix-2012-1.jpg

**Stumblingdrunk** · 2012-08-20 17:42

Originally Posted by ringthree

Oh, sure, poll the public and ask them if they want a negative campaign, and you will see that it is really unpopular, but look at the ads and the arguments that get the most traction?

The public doesn't like negative campaigns, but that doesn't stop them from responding to them exactly as the campaigns hope they will.

**SilverBreeze** · 2012-08-20 17:43

I'm not quite sure what to say to this... Just wow.

**Plow** · 2012-08-20 17:46

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

http://www.rainn.org/images/get-info...rix-2012-1.jpg

clearly those 97 were illegitimate

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