I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
— President Barack Obama, reacting to Todd Akin’s comments yesterday evening about rape. Akin stupidly and offensively suggested that women who get raped don’t need access to abortion clinics. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin told a Missouri radio station.