JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin once
equated abortion providers to terrorists and suggested that it was
"common practice" for them to be "giving abortions to women who are not
actually pregnant."
The Missouri congressman made the remarks in a 2008 speech on the
House floor. They were being recirculated Wednesday on the Internet as
Akin raised money in Washington for his campaign against Democratic Sen.
Claire McCaskill. Critics sought to link the remarks to Akin's
much-criticized comment in August that women have biological ways of
avoiding pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape" - a reason he offered
for his opposition to abortion.
Akin has repeatedly apologized for his "legitimate rape" remark and
has acknowledged he was wrong. There is no medical proof that women's
bodies repeal pregnancies in rape.
But there have been past assertions that physicians performed
abortion procedures on women who weren't actually pregnant. In 1979,
Chicago physician Arnold Bickham had his state medical license suspended
after he acknowledged defrauding the federal government. He had been
accused by Illinois officials of preforming abortions on women who
weren't pregnant and before anesthesia had fully taken effect...............
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