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Rep. Akin: Pregnancy from rape is 'really rare'

Todd Akin

Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, quickly backed off comments that aired earlier Sunday, in which he told an interviewer that a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy during rape and that such pregnancies are "really rare."

 

Paul Ryan not running for president

Paul Ryan not running for president

The Wisconsin congressman released a statement to quiet the speculation that he would seek the Republican nomination.

 

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