Todd Akin in 2008: Doctors give Abortions to Women who aren't Pregnant

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen...you read the title correctly. If only this was a joke:
As Slate's Amanda Marcotte reported Tuesday, Akin gave a speech on the House floor in 2008 denouncing abortion providers as "terrorists," claiming that they sometimes perform abortions on women who "are not actually pregnant" And yes, there's a clip from C-Span on the Slate article of him saying that (that would be embedded in the "are not actually pregnant" on the Huffington Post Article).

Dear Akin,
You need to re-take a course in biology because an abortion CANNOT happen if there is no pregnancy to terminate. If she's not pregnant, what the hell do you think is being aborted?
Sincerely,
Moi

This is another clear example of why politicans SHOULD NEVER be involved in anyone's health, whether if it's reproductive or not.

US Births down for fourth year

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U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children.

But there may be a silver lining: The decline in 2011 was just 1 percent — not as sharp a fall-off as the 2 to 3 percent drop seen in other recent years.

"It may be that the effect of the recession is slowly coming to an end," said Carl Haub, a senior demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization.

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