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October 3, 2012

Akin in 2008: "Terrorist" Doctors Provide Abortions to "Women Who Are Not Actually Pregnant" 
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New video has surfaced of embattled Missouri Congress member and
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin calling abortion doctors
"terrorists" and accusing them of providing abortions to women who are
not pregnant. Akin made the comments in a 2008 speech.

Rep. Todd Akin: "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. 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."

Akin is currently in a tight race with Democratic incumbent Senator
Claire Mcc Askill. He sparked national outrage in August when he claimed
that women have the ability to suppress conception in cases of what he
called "legitimate rape."

 

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