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ST. LOUIS — Missouri Congressman Todd Akin (pictured), a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, quickly backed off comments that aired earlier Sunday, in which he told an interviewer that a woman’s body “has ways” to prevent pregnancy during rape and that such pregnancies are “really rare.” Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. […]