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Todd Akin is back, whining and doubling down on “legitimate rape”

July 1, 2014 Willy Kessler People, Republicans, Women Leave a comment

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

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A rape survivor tells her story. Think about it when you vote.

October 30, 2012 Sue Evans 2012 Election, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Politics, Reproductive rights, Women One comment

“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

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Akin faces ethics complaints

September 27, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal 2012 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, Politics Leave a comment

The Missouri Senate race between Todd Akin (R) and Claire McCaskill (D) continues to make news with ever more astonishing statements from Akin, followed

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I ran against Todd Akin in 2010

September 24, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Campaigns, Congress, Democrats, Government, Missouri region, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

It was 10 am on March 31, 2010, the filing deadline in Missouri to run for Congress.  My wife and I kept looking at

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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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The truth about sex and pregnancy, as told to Todd Akin

August 24, 2012 Nicole Lopez 2012 Election, Education, Health care, Politics, Reproductive rights, Uncategorized, Women 2 comments

Dear Congressman Akin: When a man and a woman love each other and decide that the time is right, they call the stork. Nine

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Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body

August 23, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Politics, Reproductive rights, Women One comment

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.

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Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”

August 20, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, Politics, Women One comment

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

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I screamed at the radio when I heard Rep. Todd Akin say…

October 6, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Congress, Missouri region, Politics Leave a comment

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

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