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Getting to the root of the Akin theory...sm
Posted: Aug 24, 2012
This one is just for fun. Hubby came home and told me about Willke having a connection with Nazi German experiments, so I found this:
Mecklenburg's article was one of 19 in a book called "Abortion and Social Justice," published a year before the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.
In supporting his claim about trauma and ovulation, Mecklenburg cited experiments conducted in Nazi death camps.
The Nazis tested this hypothesis "by selecting women who were about to ovulate and sending them to the gas chambers, only to bring them back after their realistic mock-killing, to see what the effect this had on their ovulatory patterns. An extremely high percentage of these women did not ovulate."
Finally, Mecklenburg said it was likely that the rapists — because of "frequent masturbation" — were unlikely to be fertile themselves.
The book was edited by a doctor and a lawyer, and funded by Americans United for Life, the major legal arm of the anti-abortion movement.
The dissemination of Mecklenburg's article may have had more to do with the influence of his wife, Marjory, an early opponent of abortion rights who was a chairwoman of the National Right to Life Committee and director of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs in the Reagan administration.
Today, Mecklenburg is the former chairman of the OB/GYN department at Inova Women's Hospital in Falls Church, Va. He did not return a call for comment.
Information from The New York Times is included.
You should really go to the link for more info...just though folks might enjoy this...kind of like a treasure hunt...lol
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Did Mecklenburg say how he collected his data - on rapist infertility?
[ In Reply To ..]Did he put a clinical studies recruitment ad in the paper for "frequent masturbators" who had ever committed rape, were contemplating rape, were likely or VERY likely to commit rape in the near future? Now that the party has embraced the Akin Amendment, the Nazi lady parts studies and Victorian values reflected in such statements, that have contributed to this body of "knowledge," are fair game. The party chairman and candidates, scared to death to renounce the insanity, have left those pubs desperate to dissociate themselves with it out in the cold.
Thanks, JTBB. I remember someone at a party off to - Bosnia to work in a humanitarian OB clinic
[ In Reply To ..]treating female refugees, many of whom had been raped. As everyone will no doubt recall, rape was used systematically as an instrument of war in Bosnia, particularly by the Serbs. It's been a long time, but, although she was no doubt returning to provide all types of gynecologic and obstetric care, what I recall was a discussion that was mostly about women needing care for mutilations and pregnancies.
Take a look at this, Mr. Akin - AnnieOakley
[ In Reply To ..]http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-teen-held-captive-deplorable-home-131044592.html
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