It's pretty clear from reading the news reports about Akin's supposed "foot in mouth" disease that what he meant by "legitimate rape" was actual forcible rape—no consent on the woman's part. In other words, "If she was really raped, and was not a cooperative partner in the act."

But where Akin really blew it was when he displayed his abysmal ignorance of the reproductive process. Too bad he didn't go to a school where sex education was part of the health education classes. It's basic!

Either that, or he knows better and was simply lying through his pearly whites.

By the way, he's been trying to peddle this anti-abortion line about a woman not getting pregnant if she actually was raped for at least twenty years. But this was the first time he's been jumped on for it in the nation news.

The man is either a liar or a fool!!

Don Firth