Missouri Republican Senatorial candidate - Todd Akin - most well known for his "legitimate rape" comments, appears to have had a long-running history of making outlandish statements regarding abortion.
On the House floor in 2008, he said the following:
"It is no big surprise that we fight the terrorists because they are fundamentally un-American, and yet we have terrorists in our own culture called abortionists. One of the good pieces of news why we are winning this war is because there are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There is a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die."
Mr. Akin - for future reference, let me tell you what abortion actually means. In the dictionary, it's defined as, "...the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy" or "any of various surgical methods for terminating a pregnancy, especially during the first six months."
In other words, Mr. Akin, a woman would have to be pregnant in order to undergo an abortion. While we're at it, let me explain a few other things. A quarterback who throws a touchdown pass has to have the football in order to do so. A person who wins the lottery has to have a ticket. A person who doesn't know what abortion is shouldn't be running for Senate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/todd-akin-abortion-providers_n_1934305.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abortion?s=t
On the House floor in 2008, he said the following:
"It is no big surprise that we fight the terrorists because they are fundamentally un-American, and yet we have terrorists in our own culture called abortionists. One of the good pieces of news why we are winning this war is because there are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There is a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die."
Mr. Akin - for future reference, let me tell you what abortion actually means. In the dictionary, it's defined as, "...the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy" or "any of various surgical methods for terminating a pregnancy, especially during the first six months."
In other words, Mr. Akin, a woman would have to be pregnant in order to undergo an abortion. While we're at it, let me explain a few other things. A quarterback who throws a touchdown pass has to have the football in order to do so. A person who wins the lottery has to have a ticket. A person who doesn't know what abortion is shouldn't be running for Senate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/todd-akin-abortion-providers_n_1934305.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abortion?s=t
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