Missouri's Akin should drop out of race

 
 Rep. Todd Akin's

Monday August 20, 2012

His outrageous statement was actually intended to soften Akin's absolute opposition to abortion..

Let’s not mince words: Missouri Rep. Todd Akin should drop out of the U.S. Senate race. Congress is no place for a representative who calls some rapes “legitimate,” nor a man who ignorantly claims that female body has ways to prevent pregnancy from rape.
“Rape is rape,” President Obama rightly said in his denouncement of the Missouri congressman’s offensive remarks. This is a congressman who once compared student loans to Stage 3 cancer and fought to insert the word “forcible” into the rape exception law on federal funding for abortion.
“Forcible rape? As opposed to what? Consensual rape? Friendly rape?” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked today in an editorial.
The fallout from Akin’s egregious comments prompted him to apologize and claim that he misspoke. That’s pure political spin. His record shows that he’s long parsed words on rape and women’s health care in his advocacy of extreme anti-abortion views.
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