Doctors appalled over Rep. Akin's comments that 'legitimate rape' prevents pregnancy
Source: NBC
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Physicians and rape experts say theres no way the trauma of rape would prevent pregnancy from occurring.
If a womans ovaries have already released an egg, shes just as likely to get pregnant from a rape as she would be from a voluntary encounter, Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president for health policy at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told NBC News. From the biological standpoint, a woman is at risk for pregnancy if shes at a vulnerable point in her menstrual cycle when the rape occurs.
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My first reaction was OMG, said Dr. Amy Rosenman, an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA. Its unbelievable. Stuff like that is from the dark ages...there is no physiologic method that prevents pregnancy in the case of rape. If there is an egg available and there are sperm available and they meet, then pregnancy occurs. The ovary and the ovum cannot differentiate sperm from friend or foe.
In fact, each year 32,000 pregancies result from rape each year, according to an article published in 1996 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Read more: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/20/13378579-doctors-appalled-over-rep-akins-comments-that-legitimate-rape-prevents-pregnancy?lite
calimary
(81,220 posts)Keep talkin', akin. Keep talkin'. Missouri will be OURS in November.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)rocktivity
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)Maybe, just maybe someone will get an education today.
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)So, no, they wont't learn anything.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Basically they are saying, just because he made a gaffe doesn't mean we should lose sight of the fact that the left leaning Democrats want to commit mass genocide with their reprehensible Abortion views and blah blah blah god will smite them blah blah evil evil evil
Here's what's funny most Republicans of the Strong Christian Persuasion believe at some point Gods going to Kill us all any way you know Armageddon, So why is it ok to Worship a Guy you believe is going to lay waist to billions of people because they don't believe in you and don't live by your rules. But us Mere mortals who believe Abortion is women's private personal decision are evil???
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Welcome to the REPUBLICAN Right wing dark ages.... we are all gonna need a huge freaking flashlight...
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)doctors at some local hospital. Go over and read it. The picture of the guy with a clown nose. You will laugh your head off. I think it's real but not totally sure. But these doctors were pulling his leg and he believed it. The doctor said to one of his co doctors he bet he could get him to believe that woman do the same things that ducks do if forced upon. The he got to talking about scientist doing the same thing on gobal warming. Take the time if you want a good laugh.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)It is there. Just go down and see the dr with a clown nose. I am not joking it is funny.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Godaddy will sell it to me for $7.99!
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)... than that power came from Gawd. Does that mean that Gawd supports birth control?
GEOpix
(65 posts)After using your magic wand to turn the violator into a worm, wave your wand in a counterclockwise rotation 3 times while chanting " Evil seed of devil spawn, make this evil sperm be gone!"
What the hell, it makes as much sense as the rest of the Republican bullshit science that they're spouting!
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)by swishing and flicking your wand and saying "Destructum".
ejbr
(5,856 posts)that gravity makes things fall.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)Michelle Bachman is on "Intelligence" Committee....
Does anyone need to wonder why this country is SOOO screwed up?
entanglement
(3,615 posts)Cass
(2,600 posts)OMG, I thought that was a joke.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)give the republicans time, they will change biology textbooks to include the stork theory!
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The truth about legitimate rape and conception is common knowledge in locker rooms and beer halls all over the country.
We appear to be very near the load limit for pseudo-scientific stupidity that the national media are able to catapult.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)Oh my god.....
unhinged1
(20 posts)I don't understand why we are staring a gift horse in the face...leave him alone until the final 6 week deadline, then tie him to Ryan and pound them both relentlessly (legitimately of course)