Monday, August 20, 2012

Can Todd Akin Survive in Missouri?

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Last week, out of a field of three candidates ranging from very conservative to whackaloon, Missouri Republicans chose the whackaloon candidate, Todd Akin. And as you probably know by now, he stepped in it big time yesterday while defending his belief that abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest. In cases of "legitimate rape," Akin said, "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."This is a fairly common fringe view among extreme social conservatives, but they normally don't promote it in public, and certainly not on mainstream...

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