With all due respect, I believe you have a problem with the statistics on this issue. Just because only 5% of women who are raped get pregnant does not mean they get pregnant less often than women who are not. Not every woman who has consensual sex gets pregnant as a result of a single sex act (thank God).
There are studies which say that rape victims are more likely to get pregnant than those who engage in consensual sex.
The problem is that there is an incentive to be dishonest.
Abortion is free to the 9th month to those who claim rape. Many suspect that a large number of claimed rapes in abortions are probably not actually rape. Akin using “legitimate rape” may have given the demagogues fodder to attack, but he has a point - many, most in fact, of the claims of "rape" in abortion situations have no police reports to confirm the claim. No one want's to question a victim - but as a statistical measure, this is utterly meaningless.
When legitimate rape - i.e. "forcible, violent" rape is involved, then the stats are vastly different.
{ Now for the important question. How many rape pregnancies are there? The answer is that, according to statistical reporting, there are no more than one or two pregnancies resultant from every 1,000 forcible rapes.
But, does it make sense? Let's look, using the figure of 200,000 rapes each year.
Of the 200,000 women who were forcibly raped, one-third were either too old or too young to get pregnant. That leaves 133,000 at risk for pregnancy.
A woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days (perhaps 5) out of a 30-day month. Multiply our figure of 133,000 by three tenths. Three days out of 30 is one out of ten, divide 133 by ten and we have 13,300 women remaining. If we use five days out of 30 it is one out of six. Divide one hundred and thirty three thousand by six and we have 22,166 remaining.
One-fourth of all women in the United States of childbearing age have been sterilized, so the remaining three-fourths come out to 10,000 (or 15,000).
Only half of assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm in her vagina,1 so let's cut the remaining figures in half. This gives us numbers of 5,000 (or 7,500).
Fifteen percent of men are sterile, that drops that figure to 4,250 (or 6,375).
Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600 (or 5,400).
Another fifteen percent are on the pill and/or already pregnant. That reduces the number to 3,070 (or 4,600).
Now factor in the fact that it takes 5-10 months for the average couple to achieve a pregnancy. Use the smaller figure of 5 months to be conservative and divide the avove figures by 5. The number drops to 600 (or 920).
In an average population, the miscarriage rate is about 15 percent. In this case we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate will be higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If 20 percent of raped women miscarry, the figure drops to 450 (or 740).}
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