Rep. Todd Akin: bodies of "legitimate" rape victims can prevent pregnancy

Missouri Republican Rep. Todd Akin claimed this weekend that women who are victims of "legitimate" rape can avoid pregnancy because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." For once, there is no-one to defend the dumb: Akin's sheer insanity has even fellow conservatives calling for him to disappear. Fun fact! Akin sits on the House Committee for Science.