Missouri GOP official Sharon Barnes speaking of rape victims who become pregant...

"If God has chosen to bless this person with a life, you don't kill it."

It is from incumbent U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill:

"It is beyond comprehension that someone can be so ignorant about the emotional and physical trauma brought on by rape," said McCaskill. "The ideas that Todd Akin has expressed about the serious crime of rape and the impact on its victims are offensive."

That is true, of course.

But, for me, the issue is whether or not the victim of the assault, the person suffering the emotional and physical trauma,  should  have the right to terminate the pregnancy.

If the issue becomes Akin's comprehension of the emotional trauma etc, he is free to say that he has daughters etc. - he would punish rapists etc.

From the NYT:

Dr. John C. Willke, a general practitioner with obstetric training and a former president of the National Right to Life Committee, was an early proponent of this view, articulating it in a book originally published in 1985 and again in a 1999 article. He reiterated it in an interview Monday.

"This is a traumatic thing -- she's, shall we say, she's uptight," Dr. Willke said of a woman being raped, adding, "She is frightened, tight, and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic."

Leading experts on reproductive health, however, dismissed this logic.

"There are no words for this -- it is just nuts," said Dr. Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. David Grimes, a clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, said, that "to suggest that there's some biological reason why women couldn't get pregnant during a rape is absurd."

[snip]

Dr. Willke, 87, asserted yesterday that "way under 1 percent" of rape victims become pregnant, not just because of female biology but because about half of rapists "do not deposit sperm in the vagina." That, Dr. Willke said, is because many rapists have "a preference for rectal intercourse over vaginal"; experience "premature ejaculation, which is a major factor"; or "some of these guys just plain aren't fertile."

But several experts said there is no solid data supporting such contentions. A 1996 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, generally considered one of the few peer-reviewed research efforts on this subject, estimated that 5 percent of rapes result in pregnancy.

Well, ya used to in Iowa City until the new ordinance passes making it an offense to refuse entry to a police officer without a warrant.

Hope an unconstitutional smackdown is coming, but I won't hold my breath, apparently I've seriously misinterpreted that whole Bill of Rights thingy, it doesn't say what I thought it said at all, not even close.

During an interview with KDKA-TV, in Pennsylvania this week, Rep. Paul Ryan dodged questions about his "forcible rape' bill, instead, he repeated what President Obama has said: "rape is rape."

The KDKA-TV reporter asked Rep. Ryan: "You sponsored legislation that has the language `forcible rape.' What is forcible rape?"

Rep. Ryan answered: "Rape is rape. Rape is rape, period. End of story."

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to which Dana replies, "Right. Right."

I assume there was more to this pathetic interview.

What "false claims"?
How did these "false claims" "create" Roe v. Wade?

And, in any case, whatever this sanctimonious pinhead's views on rape or rapists, the simple fact is that he wants to prohibit the victim from having the right to terminate her pregnancy.