An estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1996 Aug;175(2):320-4; discussion 324-5.
Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women.
Holmes MM, Resnick HS, Kilpatrick DG, Best CL.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-2233, USA.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:
We attempted to determine the national rape-related pregnancy rate and provide descriptive characteristics of pregnancies that result from rape.

STUDY DESIGN:
A national probability sample of 4008 adult American women took part in a 3-year longitudinal survey that assessed the prevalence and incidence of rape and related physical and mental health outcomes.

RESULTS:
The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion.

CONCLUSIONS:
Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency. It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies and is closely linked with family and domestic violence. As we address the epidemic of unintended pregnancies in the United States, greater attention and effort should be aimed at preventing and identifying unwanted pregnancies that result from sexual victimization.

PMID: 8765248

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1. Well, those aren't "legitimate rapes", pregnancy cannot result from a legitimate rape...

A highly esteemed public official explained that over the weekend.

The women in the study are clearly LYING or EXAGGERATING the circumstances of their elicit sinful affairs and want a free abortion.

Do you have figures for legitimate rapes?

[progressoid]

2. Good God.

Those numbers are staggering.


Akins should ... well I'll keep that to myself.

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3. The real takeway from Akin's revelation is that the thousands of

couples who are unable to bear children cannot do so because one of them doesn't really want to have sex, so their bodies "shut the whole thing down." His ground-breaking scientific evidence is going to break up a lot of marriages...<sarcasm>.