Legitimate rape victims don't get pregnant?

Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his aluminum sheet opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

Legitimate rape victims don't get pregnant?
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

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More stupidity from Jesse (or is it Adam) Conant. What the heck is "aluminum sheet" opposition?

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