xssve -> RE: Liz Trotta On Women Raped In Military: 'What Did They Expect?' (2/20/2012 1:05:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail But that makes your definition surrealistic fallacy. It would require that the require that the rapist maintains some shadowing contact (at the very least) of the victim for a long period of time to insure there is a birth..... cuz it isn't gonna happen that he shoots a wad in her once in some alley and say, "There, by god, I fucked the living shit outta that bitch, and she is pregnant as hell and gonna have my baby, and I am Abrham, father of a nation". I don't need a study to figure out a rock is a rock, or that is absurd and silly. If such a thing were true, we would be dealing in those cases with incest and captivity, in which case your numbers are in the area I quoted you ....... .00000000000000000001%. But again, very few of any of those are in the military, or veterans, and not one of them has been to west point. Or went on a fuckin talk show, not even Jerry Springer. No, none of that is necessary, it's only necessary that she become pregnant, in fact that isn't even necessary to call it a strategy if it does happen with any statistical frequency, and it does. Stalking victims before rape occurs is quite common. And since you insist on making numbers up: quote:
In 2004-2005, 64,080 women were raped.8 According to medical reports, the incidence of pregnancy for one-time unprotected sexual intercourse is 5%. By applying the pregnancy rate to 64,080 women, RAINN estimates that there were 3,204 pregnancies as a result of rape during that period. http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims quote:
The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248 Both estimates, both put it at around 5%, but to be even handed, Christian Life Resources uses some seat of the pants statistical wrangling, including cutting date rape and only considering forcible rape, to cut that figure way down: quote:
[LEFT] [/LEFT][LEFT]One final thought, Sandra Mahkorn, in two excellent studies, has asked such women what was their chief complaint? One might fully assume it was the fact that she was pregnant, but that is incorrect. Her chief complaint was how other people treated her. Such treatment ranged from negative, to simply getting little support from those around her. Even in a culture that offers little support and aggressively pushes abortion as a solution, fewer that half of such babies are killed by abortion. Think of how many fewer yet there would be if each pregnant victim of a rape were given the support, aid and tender loving care that she and her baby deserve. [/LEFT] http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/rape-pregnancies-are-rare-461 I thought the last paragraph was notable, i.e., it's always the woman's fault, if she stayed barefoot by the sink it wouldn't have happened. Oh wait: quote:
Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. I assume those are clinical cases, I cannot find a number for clinically confirmed cases, only estimates.
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