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GOP Senate nominee: Women don’t get pregnant from ‘legitimate’ rapes
Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee in Missouri, claimed in a TV interview this weekend that women who are ‘legitimate’ victims of rape do not get pregnant because their bodies somehow prevent that from happening. As first reported by TPM, Akin, in an interview with local station KTVI-TV, was…
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