Hektore

Well, it seems to be fairly common knowledge that high stress can be a cause things like irregular menstual cycles and even occasionally implicated as a cause for miscarraiges in women who are already pregnant. It seems rather clear to me that stress hormones can impact reproductive hormones to varying degrees in women. This is not to say that I believe your teacher was doing anything other than trying to push an agenda, but there may be something there that cannot simply be dismissed as ludicrous.

I had a professor that used to say there is a lot of 'slop' in biology, meaning there are always exceptions to the rule, if you are willing to look for them. So, my answer to this question is going to be a little less cut and dry than some others. It would greatly surprise me if not one women ever had her body reject a potential pregnancy because of a stressful experience (not that stressful even remotely defines rape), but it would be equally as shocking that this phenomenon applies to all women.

Of course all this is useless banter without naming names, so now I'm off to review some textbooks. /curses selling back that reproductive biology book

PS. As far as pregnancy is concerned - timing is everything, ask anyone who has ever had to put work into conception (not that anyone doesn't put work into it ). There is actually a fairly short time window where a woman can become pregnant, I would imagine this accounts for the vast majority of rape cases that do not end in pregnancy.

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