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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."

 

Rand Paul causes stir with civil rights comment

Rand Paul causes stir with civil rights comment

A conservative who won the Republican Party nomination for U.S. senator in Kentucky tried on Thursday to repair the damage on Thursday from comments he made that suggested he did not fully support civil rights laws.

 

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