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Missouri's GOP Senate candidate: Pregnancy from rape is 'really rare'
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/19/4739501/rep-akin-pregnancy-from-rape-is.htmlRep. Akin: Pregnancy from rape is 'really rare'
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS -- Rep. Todd Akin, Missouri's GOP Senate candidate, has questioned whether women can become pregnant when they're raped.
Akin said in an interview with St. Louis television station KTVI released Sunday that pregnancy from rape is "really rare." A video of the interview is posted on the station's website.
Akin has said he opposes most abortions, and said in the interview that if a woman is raped, her body "has ways to shut that whole thing down."
Akin has served six terms and has said he's Missouri's most conservative congressman. He's running against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.