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eridani

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Thu Oct 25, 2012, 03:15 AM Oct 2012

Todd Akin's Militia Ties Exposed: Salon

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/todd-akin-militia-abortion_n_2005380.html

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.
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Todd Akin's Militia Ties Exposed: Salon (Original Post) eridani Oct 2012 OP
Oh my. Is Akin good friends with Scott Roeder? Loudly Oct 2012 #1
the plot thickens to cement defacto7 Oct 2012 #2
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