Reddit reacts to Infowars reporter killing

No pretending necessary. It's universally recognized by medical experts that extreme stress can cause major issues for fertility. If you Google "Akin body shuts down pregnancy debunked" you can come up with things like Wikipedia citing a newspaper article that says he probably had "spastic tubes" theory in mind, and that's false! GOTTEM! Except there's zero reason to think he had in mind something like that which no one has ever heard of instead of the unquestionable mechanism that every doctor has. There also isn't any reason to think he meant it was impossible as opposed to just less likely.

Well, what about Genghis Khan and his 10 million descendants? Wasn't he raping everybody left and right? Kind of, but that's not particularly relevant to the modern western world. If you have dozens of enslaved concubines in context where you can do so with impunity and you habitually r*pe them and there's no birth control methods, of course pregnancy will eventually result in most of these women. There's not many parallels to that in modern society. You could look at examples like Josef Fritzl who keep his daughter as a prisoner in his basement, but obviously they are few and far between.

In present day America, if you have a incident of forceable r*pe, you have to have a confluence of many factors for the incident to lead to a successful pregnancy such as: the woman being fertile in the first place, her not being on hormonal birth control, the male feminist not using a condom to help conceal his identity, him having adequate sperm quality and motility, it being in the narrow window in the cycle where conception can happen, steps not being taken to remove sperm or using emergency contraception (like Plan B), and the various effects of extreme stress from r*pe not interfering with conception, implantation, or causing a miscarriage.

Lastly, I also already agreed in another comment that it doesn't really address the point. Suppose that .1% of abortions are due to r*pe, so that it's a vanishingly small amount. Okay, well, what about it? Why should a r*ped person be forced to keep that pregnancy? If it's a small injustice in the big picture, then likewise abortions of these babies would be a small injustice in the big picture too, I mean, as a statistical consideration. So, it just doesn't really answer the question that well for the people in that situation, as long as you grant they exist, and I'm sure he does.

P.S. Here's a good overview of the effect of stress that mentions many studies: https://www.babycenter.com/getting-pregnant/how-to-get-pregnant/can-stress-get-in-the-way-of-getting-pregnant_1336350