Skip to main content  Rape can make you pregnant. Period.  By
Aaron Carroll, Special to CNN August 21, 2012 -- Updated 0014
GMT (0814 HKT)   • Rep. Todd Akin said pregnancy from
"legitimate rape" is rare   • Aaron Carroll says he's wrong:
Humans are designed to reproduce   • He says Akin probably aimed
to make prohibition of abortions square with an (alternate)
reality   • Carroll: Akin's ludicrous remark is distraction
Republicans could avoid if they stuck to science   (CNN) -- Rep.
Todd Akin made news this weekend by announcing that pregnancy
from "legitimate rape" is rare. He further argued that
physicians had told him that women who were traumatized in such
a way had biological things happen in their bodies to "shut
down" the "whole thing" so that fertilization won't occur.
There's so much wrong here that it's hard to know where to
begin.  Let's start with the basics. The human body is
intricately designed and exquisitely evolved to make procreation
possible. In fact, some would argue that it's our prima