Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she\u2019s raped, a \u201cwoman\u2019s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an Akin tidbit that offers a clue.<\/p>\n
For many years, Akin held Fourth of July picnics for supporters and friends at his family homestead in suburban St. Louis. And at those parties, he would dress up in a three-cornered hat and other colonial regalia. Akin took his colonial-themed party seriously, and so did others. According to the Washington Post<\/a>,<\/p>\n [Akin\u2019s church pastor] \u201cwould read from Ecclesiastes, take off his colonial robes to reveal a revolutionary military uniform and then march off with George Washington to war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Akin\u2019s magic-womb theory is an idea that was floating around during America\u2019s colonial period.<\/p>\n