Another Republican has done ff'd up and mentioned the word rape. Again, in the context of what sounds like more wingnut pseudoscience about how women have magical control over their ovulation and conception. Ever wonder where that wacky idea started? Here's one place:
“In the aftermath of Akin’s statement, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on a 1972 essay by an obstetrician named Fred Mecklenburg, who cited a Nazi experiment in which women were told they were on their way to die in the gas chambers—and then were allowed to live, so that doctors could check whether they would still ovulate. Since few did, Mecklenburg claimed that women exposed to the emotional trauma of rape wouldn’t be able to become pregnant, either. (He also argued that rapists are infertile because they masturbate a lot.)
Wingnut orgs know pregnancies from rape and incest are big weak points for their absolutist control over women's reproduction, so they have to cobble up bullshit for why it never happens. The Nazi experiment offers one such framework, they then pass this crap around on email lists, strip out pejorative context and inconvenient facts, and recite it to one another in conservative churches and other places reeking of authoritarian domination as Gospel until many know nothing else. It's probably a bit of a shock when it comes up against reality.