todd akin

Maybe He Was Talking About Ducks

kbonham | August 21, 2012

A mini furor erupted this weekend, when republican Senate nominee Todd Akin defended his position of denying abortions even to victims of rape, because in the case of "legitimate rape," women have biological defenses that prevent pregnancy: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” The liberal blogosphere went nuts, and the story was picked up by all the national media outlets, and even Mitt Romney decided…