{"id":16312,"date":"2012-08-23T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16312"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:23:12","slug":"legitimate-rape-doesnt-cause-pregnancy-says-gop-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16312","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Legitimate Rape\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Cause Pregnancy, Says GOP Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 Missouri <strong>Congressman Todd Akin<\/strong>, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from <strong>Mitt Romney\u2019s<\/strong> campaign after saying that women\u2019s bodies can prevent pregnancies in \u201ca legitimate rape\u201d and that conception is rare in such cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akin<\/strong>, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat <strong>Sen. Claire McCaskill<\/strong>, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St. Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that\u2019s really rare,\u201d <strong>Akin<\/strong> said. \u201cIf it\u2019s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,\u201d <strong>Akin<\/strong> said of a rape victim\u2019s chances of becoming pregnant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akin<\/strong> said in an emailed statement later Sunday that he \u201cmisspoke\u201d during the interview, though the statement did not specify on which points or comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it\u2019s clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year,\u201d <strong>Akin\u2019s<\/strong> statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign after saying that women\u2019s bodies can prevent pregnancies in \u201ca legitimate rape\u201d and that conception is rare in such cases. Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}