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I know it's controversial, but I agree with him.
Posted on: October 4, 2024 at 12:23:25 CT
JeffB MU
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He was being interviewed by that CNN correspondent who went to work for KMOX radio.
They were discussing abortion and he was asked What about women who are raped?
The interviewer was & is a liberal and he didn't bat an eye at the 'legitimate rape' comment. No one thought anything of it until the next day when it was replayed and some took offense to it. It was a stupid way to word it, but everyone knew what point he was making. If abortion was outlawed in Missouri, but there was an exclusion for rape, many women would likely then go for an abortion and claim that it was because they were raped, whether that was true or not.
He was also correct in his assertion that women getting pregnant due to rape was rare.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100219131540/http://www.pregnantpause.org/aborted/curerape.htm
Of course a little of that gets into how one defines 'legitimate rape'. Back then the date rape drugs weren't a thing. Things can get into a gray area when the woman is saying "No, no", but is lifting her butt off the bed so the guy can pull her panties off.
I had seen reports from doctors talking about women struggling with difficulties getting pregnant. They said that stress can reduce chances of pregnancy, which is why they believe that couples that adopt often conceived not long afterwards. Rape would obviously be stressful.
In the cases where women are violently assaulted and raped the odds are that they are 1. not in a fertile time, or 2. are already on some form of birth control. But the bigger point is that if they report the rape and go to the hospital they can use spermicides and contraceptives that would prevent her from ovulating and potentially from conceiving even if she had.
As noted in the link above, researchers have done studies on women who had conceived in rape and had difficulty finding enough women who had done so to make the studies statistically significant.
Edited by JeffB at 12:25:47 on 10/04/24
They were discussing abortion and he was asked What about women who are raped?
The interviewer was & is a liberal and he didn't bat an eye at the 'legitimate rape' comment. No one thought anything of it until the next day when it was replayed and some took offense to it. It was a stupid way to word it, but everyone knew what point he was making. If abortion was outlawed in Missouri, but there was an exclusion for rape, many women would likely then go for an abortion and claim that it was because they were raped, whether that was true or not.
He was also correct in his assertion that women getting pregnant due to rape was rare.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100219131540/http://www.pregnantpause.org/aborted/curerape.htm
Of course a little of that gets into how one defines 'legitimate rape'. Back then the date rape drugs weren't a thing. Things can get into a gray area when the woman is saying "No, no", but is lifting her butt off the bed so the guy can pull her panties off.
I had seen reports from doctors talking about women struggling with difficulties getting pregnant. They said that stress can reduce chances of pregnancy, which is why they believe that couples that adopt often conceived not long afterwards. Rape would obviously be stressful.
In the cases where women are violently assaulted and raped the odds are that they are 1. not in a fertile time, or 2. are already on some form of birth control. But the bigger point is that if they report the rape and go to the hospital they can use spermicides and contraceptives that would prevent her from ovulating and potentially from conceiving even if she had.
As noted in the link above, researchers have done studies on women who had conceived in rape and had difficulty finding enough women who had done so to make the studies statistically significant.
Edited by JeffB at 12:25:47 on 10/04/24
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I know it's controversial, but I agree with him. - JeffB MU - 10/4 12:23:25