"Legitimate Rape"....Really, Rep Akin?

I'm sure many of you have heard about the controversial statement made by MO Rep. Todd Akin, in which Mr. Akin implied that if a rape was "legitimate", a woman could not become pregnant because her body would fight off the pregnancy.
I have to say that I am against abortion, EXCEPT for instances of rape, molestation, incest and in the instance that continuing the pregnancy would jeapordize the life of the mother. I found Mr. Akin's comments offensive and angering. Mr. Akin has no idea what it is like to be a woman, let alone be raped and become pregnant. Through his comment, I gathered that he was implying that if a woman who is raped becomes pregnant, she wanted the rape; otherwise her body would reject the pregnancy. First of all, did this man skip health class in high school, where you are taught that all it takes is one time to have sex to get pregnant? There are women out there who get pregnant while on birth control and with their partners using condoms (my oldest daughter was conceived while I was on birth control). Mr. Akin obviously knows nothing about pregnancy, being a woman, rape or anything else regarding a woman's body. Who is he to say that regardless of being "legitimate", "forcible" or whatever else he wants to call the type of rape, that a woman should have to have the baby? Mr. Akin has put Republicans in a very bad light and I am happy that many well known Republicans do not agree with Mr. Akin's view and comment and are even asking him to remove himself from the political race (which he should).
Just to clear things up, since Mr. Akin obviously knows nothing about rape or pregnancy, here are some statistics on the subject:

80% of Rape and/or Incest victims are under the age of 30
44% of Rape and/or Incest victims are under the age of 18
15% of Rape and/or Incest victims are under the age of 12
Over 200,000 men, women & children are victims of Rape and/or Incest in America every year
1 out of every 6 women have been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in America
1 out of every 33 men have been a victim of an attempted or completed rape in America

In a one year period (2004-2005), 64,080 women were raped. Of those women, 3,204 of those rapes resulted in pregnancy (disproving Mr. Akin's statement).

Victims of Sexual Assault are:
3 times more likely to suffer from depression
6 times more likely to suffer from PTSD
13 times more likely to abuse alcohol
26 times more likely to abuse drugs
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide

For more information and statistics on Rape, Incest, Molestation visit www.rainn.org (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network).