(ABC NEWS) Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin said today that he would not step aside despite calls for him to quit by two prominent Republican senators following his comments about "legitimate rape."
Akin, a Republican, insisted on Mike Huckabee's radio show today that he is staying in the race despite the furor over his comments that rape victims rarely get pregnant.
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," he said Sunday.
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