The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.

The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.

Republicans have been getting in trouble for asserting this since at least 1988

At a news conference on sex education on the Capitol steps, he told a cheering crowd, “If you’re expecting me to back off, the answer is no.”

Freind said, “It is almost but not quite impossible to become pregnant on the basis of rape. The odds are one in millions and millions and millions. And there is a physical reason for that.

“Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman secretes a certain secretion, which has a tendency to kill sperm.”

Informed of Freind’s remarks, Dr. Luigi Mastroianni Jr., director of the division of human reproduction at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, said : “Boy, if I could find out what that (secretion) was, I’d use it as a contraceptive.”

Mastroianni, who is also a past president of the American Fertility Society, added, “There is no such secretion.”

He said Freind’s statements were “scientifically unfounded” and “reflect a lack of concern for women who have been victimized by rape” by dismissing the act as not having consequence.

Dr. Richard Depp, chairman of the department of obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University, said, “The only reality is that women get pregnant when they are ovulating.”

He said of Freind’s claim, “There’s no basis for that. That’s nonsense.”

Both Mastroianni and Depp said women who are raped can and do become pregnant.

Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, told a local Missouri station in an interview that “legitimate rape” does not lead to pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin said in an interview with KTVI-TV

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Akin’s comments came during a discussion of his hardline stand against permitting legal abortions for rape victims. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child,” he said.

McCaskill quickly rebuked him — “As a woman & former prosecutor who handled 100s of rape cases, I’m stunned by Rep. Akin’s comments about victims this AM,” she tweeted

In 1995, 71-year-old North Carolina state Rep. Henry Aldridge gained national notoriety after telling the N.C. House Appropriations Committee, “The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work and they don’t get pregnant. “

In 1980, attorney James Leon Holmes wrote, in a letter arguing for a constitutional ban on abortion, “Concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.”

Sponsored by New Jersey Republican Chris Smith, H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” would have rewritten the rape exception in federal abortion-funding bans from the language in the Hyde Amendment. Henceforth, according to the bill, there would be exemptions only for something called “forcible rape.” (Presumably, this is the same thing Willke called “assault rape” and Akin called “legitimate rape,” as opposed to what Willke called “consensual” “statutory” rape.) After a public outcry, Smith retreated from his first draft of the bill and reinstituted the Hyde language, though an additional provision was added later to clarify that the bill will “not allow the Federal Government to subsidize abortions in cases of statutory rape.” Akin and Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan were co-sponsors of the bill, along with 225 others. The bill passed the House with all Republicans and 16 Democrats voting for it, but then died in the Democrat-controlled Senate. President Obama had pledged to veto the bill.

According to a 1996 article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, “among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.”

Nate Phelps is the son of Fred Phelps, infamous pastor of Kansas’ Westboro Baptist Church, an entity which asserts that “God Hates Fags,” that President Obama is the AntiChrist, and that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were God’s punishment upon the United States.

One of 13 children, Nate ultimately broke away from his father’s extreme Calvanist teaching (and the emotional and physical abuse he asserts was prevalent in the Phelps home) at the age of eighteen. He built a new life, declared himself an atheist and is now on the front lines against Westboro, religion, child abuse, and is a strong supporter of the LGBT community.

Nate’s website is http://www.natephelps.com

I have a question for those who support cutting medicare and reforming Social Security and things like that. 

Well, is anyone actually surprised that Pat Robertson is at it again? I am not. This type of thing is nothing new to him. Pat Robertson has said that when “Gay People Bring Forth Babies from Their Butts” is when he will rethink his views on Homosexuality. I have to say I don’t think he would even change his veiws then but that’s just my thoughts.

In earlier broadcasts, he denounced homosexuality as being related to a type of “demonic possession,” and has previously promoted so-called “ex-gay conversion” or reparative therapy on his show.

When this news story (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/bryan-fischer-underground-railroad-gay-parents-kidnapping-_n_1757378.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-rights) was pointed out to me I couldn’t believe it. It is one of those things that is just so shocking and just so REALLY that it leaves me a bit speechless.

American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer has sunk to a new, disturbing low with his anti-gay statements. He called for an “Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households.” This is incredibly dangerous rhetoric that has the potential to do great harm. How much destruction could self-declared “Harriet Tubmans” do to same-sex families, motivated by Fischer?

By suggesting this, Bryan Fischer is advocating terrorism, plain and simple. These are the same folks who send their own kids to re-education camps in the Caribbean or even some US states where they are tortured and brainwashed into being more obedient to their parents (google “Escuala Caribe”). 

The guy just called on people to illegally kidnap kids. That in my book qualifies as terrorism. He just called upon a nation to kidnap kids. Put his ass in jail for inciting illegal kidnappings. People will believe what Bryan Fischer advocates, take it to heart and destroy families. 

Fischer is calling for the kids in these kinds of homes, with loving parents who have the same genitalia, to be taken from their parents simply because they have the same genitalia. Not only that, but he is praising a woman who kidnapped a little girl and went on the run prevent her at all costs from seeing her mother.

Neil Patrick Harris? Dan Savage? He wants those men to have their children kidnapped. This is precisely what he said. This is what he advocates.

Comments like these are not benign. They are calls to action, heeded by the least-willed among society, the emotionally and mentally disturbed, and those most-susceptible to the ravings of a lunatic.

Fischer is well known as an advocate for the criminalization of homosexuality in America, and has compared gay people in cannibals.

In 2010 the Southern Law Poverty Center designated the American Family Association as a hate group, saying the AFA’s ‘propagation of known falsehoods and demonizing propaganda’ was responsible. This is the organization that Chick-Fil-A donates to.

LGBT families are not a new phenomenon. There are over 650,000 same-sex couples raising nearly 250,000 childen, according to the 2010 U.S. Census data.

A Human Rights Campaign official said Fischer’s call for kidnapping children from same-sex partners is not only offensive, but a harmful mischaracterization of families that struggle daily to provide loving and safe home environments despite significant legal, financial and dignitary inequality.

Fischer once said, “Do not be under any illusions about what homosexual activists will do with your freedoms and your religion if they have the opportunity. They’ll do the same thing to you that the Nazis did to their opponents in Nazi Germany.”

It sounds like he wants to do what the Nazis did and not the other way around. Nazis kidnapped children so that they could be raised in “good Aryan families.” Really who is sounding like the Nazis?

Thoughts?