re: #181 calochortus

Might I point out that sperm can apparently survive for 4 or 5 days and still be able to fertilize an egg. So this woman has to be so traumatized that her system pretty much shuts down for several days in order to avoid pregnancy. Naturally, every other bodily system has to be up and running so she doesn’t die in the meanwhile. Women are amazing…//

And yeah, this stupid theory has been around for decades, with the wiggle room that oh maybe 1 in 10,000 women who are “truly raped” will get pregnant. That way if your rapist beat you up and broke your arm and two ribs, then you’re just one of the tiny minority that did get pregnant, but it wasn’t the baby’s fault now was it?

When Akin said “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down”, he didn’t really specify what he meant by “that whole thing”. I’m sure he’s incapable of being specific in that area.