At a congressional hearing Wednesday, Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, argued against an exception for rape and incest victims from a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. He said, “Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject—because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.”

Background on the “Legitimate Rape concept and the Nazi Death Camps:

In 1972, he (Fred Mecklenburg) authored a book chapter, “The Indications for Induced Abortion: A Physician’s Perspective”, which argued in part that pregnancy from rape “is extremely rare.”[13] The chapter appeared in a book titled Abortion and Social Justice, written in response to arguments before the Supreme Court regarding legalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade. Mecklenburg added that a woman exposed to the trauma of rape “will not ovulate even if she is ‘scheduled’ to.”[14] Mecklenburg said researchers in Nazi death camps observed this effect by “selecting women who were about to ovulate and sending them to the gas chambers, only to bring them back after their realistic mock-killing, to see what the effect this had on their ovulatory patterns. An extremely high percentage of these women did not ovulate.”[14] Journalist Blythe Bernhard stated, “That article has influenced two generations of anti-abortion activists with the hope to build a medical case to ban all abortions without any exception.”[15]