Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate, sparked controversy with a claim, made in a TV interview posted Sunday, that victims of “legitimate rape” very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so.
Speaking to Charles Jaco on the Jaco Report on St. Louis’s Fox station, Akin was answering a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape. He said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Todd Akin did apologize and then decided to make it worse.
In July 2014, WND Books published Akin’s book, Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom. In it, he said that he regretted apologizing, because “by asking the public at large for forgiveness, I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said.” He also defended his original comments and attacked various Republicans for “wronging” him…
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/akin-legitimate-rape-victims-dont-get-pregnant-079864
Todd Akin did apologize and then decided to make it worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#Aftermath