Changes

A [[veteran]], Congressman Akin has been a leader on military issues in the [[Republican Party]] in [[Congress]].  He is also a minister who has championed the greater use of [[prayer]] and charity.  His family has [[homeschooled]] their children.

A [[veteran]], Congressman Akin has been a leader on military issues in the [[Republican Party]] in [[Congress]].  He is also a minister who has championed the greater use of [[prayer]] and charity.  His family has [[homeschooled]] their children.

In August 2012, Akin addressed a suggestion that there should be a broad rape exception to any limits on [[abortion]].  Akin distinguished between an actual rape and a false allegation of rape by referring to the former as a "legitimate rape," an ambiguous word choice that the [[liberal media]] then unfairly took out of context.  Akin restated the same fact that has been published in the medical literature, which is that the incidence of pregnancy due to rape is rare.  For example, the 6th Edition (2012) of the classic textbook by Lentz confirms:<ref>Lentz: Comprehensive Gynecology, 6th ed. (2012)</ref>

In August 2012, Akin addressed a suggestion that there should be a broad rape exception to any limits on [[abortion]].  Akin distinguished between an actual rape and a false allegation of rape by referring to the former as a "legitimate rape," an ambiguous word choice that the [[liberal media]] then unfairly took out of context.  Akin restated the same fact that has been published in the medical literature, which is that the incidence of pregnancy due to rape is rare.  For example, the 6th Edition (2012) of the classic textbook by Lentz confirms:<ref>Lentz: Comprehensive Gynecology, 6th ed. (2012)</ref>

{{cquote|In the experience of most sexual assault centers, the chance of pregnancy occurring is quite low.}}

{{cquote|In the experience of most sexual assault centers, the chance of pregnancy occurring is quite low.}}