GOP: "Legitimate" rape will not cause pregnancy

I posted this last year, but it seems appropriate to toss it out there again to remind ourselves that some of these politicians all too often really don't know what they are talking about, and it happens every election year.

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By Rose Eveleth
October 12, 2011

In recent months, politicians cranking up their campaigns for the 2012 presidential elections have made some science claims that might be called interesting at best. We decided to take a look back at some of the biggest science goofs made by public figures in the past 10 years. Some of these were submitted by Scientific American readers , who wrote in with their favorites. Others came from Sense about Science's yearly report on celebrity science gaffes. The rest came from simply searching the Internet, and, let's just say, they weren't hard to find.

Of course you can say that pregnancy due to rape is rare if you are comparing it to the overall pregnancy rate of the population because couples who are actively trying to get pregnant will far outnumber those who get pregnant due to rapes. Rapes happen in lower quantities and not necessarily during the ovulation cycle of the woman unlike compared to couples who are trying to conceive a child. Does that make the act of a rape any less of a problem or any less illegal or any less traumatizing? Hell no. I almost think this moron is trying to minimize the suffering/has absolutely no ability to feel compassion or empathy caused by being raped, whether the woman becomes pregnant or not - he certainly isn't helping with his f****d up notions of the biology of conception or the choices a woman who has been raped should be allowed to legally make for herself that he'd like to take away from her.