I've heard where some liberals will say Todd Akin doesn't know what he's talking about, but clearly he does. Representative Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) defends the comment, and explains how this works medically speaking.
Gingrey, a former OBGYN and
co-chair of the House GOP Doctors Caucus, defended the two men at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Georgia earlier in January. He said he believes that they are at least "partly right" in what they said about pregnancy and rape, the Marietta Daily Journal reported:
Quote:
In Missouri, Todd Akin ... was asked by a local news source about rape and he said, "Look, in a legitimate rape situation" -- what he meant by legitimate rape was just look, someone can say I was raped: a scared-to-death 15-year-old that becomes impregnated by her boyfriend and then has to tell her parents, that's pretty tough and might on some occasion say, "Hey, I was raped." That's what he meant when he said legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. I don’t find anything so horrible about that. But then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He’s partly right on that. ...
And I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, "Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate." So he was partially right wasn’t he?
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It is only a matter of time that our own hospitals adopt the Biblical view and support LIFE in ALL cases, before birth only that is.