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Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas

August 25, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, History, Ideas, Missouri region Leave a comment

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?”

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