Is this what Todd Akin believes about “legitimate rape”? Rape trauma causes women to “secrete a certain secretion”?

HARRISBURG — 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.



Two Philadelphia doctors specializing in human reproduction characterized Freind’s contention as scientifically baseless.