NY TimesTodd Akin, Whose Senate Bid Collapsed After a Rape Remark, Dies at 74
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-56% Negative
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40% : Mr. Akin, an opponent of abortion whose political rise was fueled by evangelicals, provoked ire across the political spectrum after he claimed in a television interview in August 2012 that women's bodies could somehow reject pregnancies in instances of what he called "legitimate rape."35% : "The female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Mr. Akin said when asked about his stance on abortion in cases in which a woman had been sexually assaulted. "
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