Todd Akin's Abortion Position Reflects GOP Platform

Huffington Post by Laura Bassett | Aug. 21, 2012 (News Analysis)

Lost in the national outrage and politics following an inflammatory statement made Sunday by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri is the reality that, on a fundamental level, there is no policy difference between Akin's comments and the mainstream GOP platform.‬ Full Story »

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 by Randy Morrow - Aug. 22, 2012

that the draft of the GOP’s official 2012 platform calls for a federal ban on abortion with no exception for rape and incest survivors — the same policy Akin was trying to defend when he asserted that victims of “legitimate rape” have a natural bodily mechanism that prevents them from getting pregnant.

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