When Todd Akin (the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri) went on television Sunday and explained his opposition to abortion — even in the case of rape — by stating,
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,”it was a highly illuminating moment in American discourse. For one thing, it proved that a man with six children can still have absolutely no idea how the female reproductive system works.
A guide to “legitimate” rape