Todd Akin’s militia ties exposed
The senate candidate’s claims that he had nothing to do with an extremist group is unraveling fast
On May 9, 1987, police arrested 30 anti-abortion protesters for blocking the front door of an abortion clinic in St. Louis, Missouri. Among those arrested, according to new information uncovered by the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, was Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri Republican Senate candidate best known for saying women can’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” The arrest ties Akin to one of the most radical anti-abortion activists of the 1990s — a man later convicted in federal court of threatening abortion doctors — and, through him, to a right-wing militia group he’s long denied having anything to do with.
I wonder how much something like this would even matter to the type of people who are supporting him. Hell it might even strengthen their support.
