[Kobi]

From NARAL:

For years, the opponents of women’s reproductive rights have floated some dangerously misguided ideas about the female body and reproduction.

Lately it’s become clear that their junk science, wishful thinking, and outright propaganda have been taken up by all manner of anti-choice politicians nationwide.

One of the main sources of this harmful misinformation is Dr. Jack Willke, former president of the National Right to Life Committee, often described as the godfather of the anti-choice movement. Just take a look at what he says about pregnancy from rape:

"To get and stay pregnant a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain that is easily influenced by emotions. There's no greater emotional trauma … than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy."

Dr. Willke, is a medical doctor. But he has been preaching dangerous propaganda to the anti-choice movement for decades about rape survivors “defenses” against becoming pregnant. Earlier this week he told the New York Times that “sperm, if deposited in [a rape survivor’s] vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic.”