Fritz Showalter is a far-right congressman and a witness in trial of the rape of Avery Jordan by Richard Purcell.
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Showalter also worked as an obstetrician and was against abortion, including for rape victims. He claimed the legal argument that doing so was considered tampering with evidence. However, he was actually driven by his extreme Christian faith and his rejection of the belief that women who are raped end up pregnant. Showalter claimed that women's bodies reject rape by decreasing ovulation on reactive instinct, thereby decreasing pregnancy risks, but his writings were mostly shared by fringe science outlets. He eventually stopped practicing for 12 years to enter politics.
Showalter was called to defend Purcell, a cameraman, for raping his colleague Jordan, a sportscaster whom Purcell was stalking, as Jordan ended up pregnant and chose to keep her baby. Showalter openly stated on the stand that he would tell patients not to lie to him or "the Lord" when they reported rapes that got them pregnant. The judge ordered the jury to only regard Showalter's statements as opinion from experience, and the prosecution further discredited him not just by mentioning the proven science behind pregnancy from rape, but his censure for sexual harassment at a clinic in Kentucky. (L&O: "Legitimate Rape")