You know how right-wingers really, really want to be viewed as victims? It seems to be a twisted variant on the old adage that
Tag: Todd Akin
A rape survivor tells her story. Think about it when you vote.
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” U.S. Representative Todd Akin (R-MO). “If
Akin faces ethics complaints
The Missouri Senate race between Todd Akin (R) and Claire McCaskill (D) continues to make news with ever more astonishing statements from Akin, followed
I ran against Todd Akin in 2010
It was 10 am on March 31, 2010, the filing deadline in Missouri to run for Congress. My wife and I kept looking at
Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas
Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”
The truth about sex and pregnancy, as told to Todd Akin
Dear Congressman Akin: When a man and a woman love each other and decide that the time is right, they call the stork. Nine
Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body
Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.
Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”
As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because
I screamed at the radio when I heard Rep. Todd Akin say…
Republican incumbent Todd Akin [D-MO] shared 30 minutes of his time with host Don Marsh and listeners of St. Louis Public Radio’s “St. Louis