Todd Akin on MSNBC: A "number of people" on my staff were "conceived by rape."

I think Slate does a fairly decent job of making sense of the garbage spewing forth from Akin's mouth. Personally I think he needs to just shut up about it because he is just making himself out to be ignorant and stupid:

Piecing it together, I think we get the full picture. Akin believes that “the female body” often prevents women from getting pregnant when raped, if these women are even telling the truth about getting raped to begin with. If you are one of those unlucky enough to be legitimately raped and impregnated, well, no legal abortion for you. But take comfort, legitimate rape victims: That baby you were forced to bear might get to work for a failed Senate candidate one day! So it all works out in the end. 

 From HuffPo we have a bit more detail:

Akin said that while he "misspoke some words," Democrats and establishment Republicans unfairly took him out of context ahead of the Democratic National Convention. He compared the attacks against him to those against Hillary Clinton, who was criticized recently for defending an accused rapist as an attorney in the 1970s.

"Well, here, let me just try to give you an explanation. Legitimate rape is a law enforcement term and it's abbreviation for legitimate case of rape," Akin said. He added, "If I had been choosing my words better, I should have said legitimate case of rape. And I have acknowledged that it is a poor choice of words."

"I never said that a woman can't get pregnant who is raped," he said. "I was simply talking about the fact that stress affects the statistics of people becoming pregnant."

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Akin also claimed that a "number of people" on his campaign had been "conceived by rape."

The former Missouri Republican is back in the news, to the dismay of establishment Republicans, after offering a hearty defense of his comments in a new book, “Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom."

This man gets creepier and creepier as time goes by and make me wonder exactly what his issue(s) may be.  You know that old saying about protesting too much, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Todd Akin on MSNBC: A "number of people" on my staff were "conceived by rape."