Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate: ‘Legitimate rape’ rarely causes pregnancy
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Rep. Todd Akin, the newly-christened GOP Senate nominee in Missouri, said in an interview airing Sunday that “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy.
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”