{"id":845249,"date":"2021-10-04T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845249"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:13:41","slug":"former-missouri-republican-todd-akin-died-and-his-critics-are-already-dancing-on-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-missouri-republican-todd-akin-died-and-his-critics-are-already-dancing-on-his-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Missouri Republican Todd Akin Died, And His Critics Are Already Dancing On His Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-missouri-republican-todd-akin-died-and-his-critics-are-already-dancing-on-his-grave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican Missouri Rep. Todd Akin died late Sunday after a years-long battle with cancer, and critics danced on his grave immediately after news broke of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Critics referred to Akin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/08\/19\/missouri-gop-senate-candidate-on-abortion-in-cases-of-legitimate-rape-video\/\">comments<\/a> about \u201clegitimate rape\u201d during his 2012 Senate campaign. A local television station asked Akin if he supported access to abortion for women who were raped, and he responded that such cases were \u201creally rare\u201d because \u201cif it\u2019s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akin later apologized for his comments and said he had \u201cgreat empathy for all victims\u201d and regretted misspeaking.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users took Akin\u2019s death as a chance to bring up the comments again.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast referred to Akin as \u201cthe ex-congressman who wrecked his career by sharing his wildly offensive and wrong opinion\u201d that women rarely get pregnant from rape. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/07\/05\/george-will-trump-a-one-man-todd-akin-for-gop-acting-like-a-democratic-mole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: George Will: Trump A \u2018One-Man Todd Akin\u2019 For GOP, Acting Like A \u2018Democratic Mole\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.365591397849\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Todd Akin, the ex-congressman who wrecked his career by sharing his wildly offensive and wrong opinion that women rarely get pregnant if they suffer from \u201clegitimate rape,\u201d has died at the age of 74 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RDWSm4AJon\">https:\/\/t.co\/RDWSm4AJon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\/status\/1445004983615754240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalist Imani Gandy praised The Associated Press for contextualizing Akin\u2019s death by including his comments in their headline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice legacy, jackass,\u201d Gandy said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.3607843137255\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whoever is running this account should get an award for contextualizing who Todd Akin was.<\/p>\n<p>Nice legacy, jackass.<\/p>\n<p>Great job, AP\u2019s social media person. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjHhyDenR1\">https:\/\/t.co\/rjHhyDenR1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf83Imani Gandy Corn\ud83c\udf83 (@AngryBlackLady) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngryBlackLady\/status\/1445034405311909891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Left-wing blogger Majid Padellan, also known as \u201cBrooklyn Dad Defiant,\u201d said that Akin \u201cjust discovered what \u2018legitimate death\u2019 looks like firsthand.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.166666666667\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Todd Akin, the guy who invented the idiotic phrase \u201clegitimate rape,\u201d has just discovered what \u201clegitimate death\u201d looks like firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmpadellan\/status\/1445014193883729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down. Todd Akin\u2019s life, that is,\u201d wrote the St. Louis-based outlet Riverfront Times. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/23\/rep-issa-warns-trump-could-be-a-national-todd-akin-video\/\"><b>(RELATED: Rep. Issa Warns \u2018Trump Could Be A National Todd Akin\u2019 [VIDEO])<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2832369942197\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down. Todd Akin\u2019s life, that is. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ToddAkin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ToddAkin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YltsVnYAgj\">https:\/\/t.co\/YltsVnYAgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riverfront Times (@RiverfrontTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiverfrontTimes\/status\/1445048774712348674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMust have been a legitimate cancer,\u201d journalist Eoin Higgins said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.1320754716981\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Must have been a legitimate cancer<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K92Zw7WzS3\">https:\/\/t.co\/K92Zw7WzS3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EoinHiggins_\/status\/1445065047106113539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who was Akin\u2019s Democratic opponent in the 2012 Senate race, posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clairecmc\/status\/1444979227711967243?s=20\">statement<\/a> praising Akin for being \u201cauthentic to his beliefs\u201d and a \u201cnice man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just learned that Todd Akin has died. He was a nice man, and although we had major disagreements about just about everything, he was authentic to his beliefs,\u201d McCaskill wrote. \u201cHe actually believed in everything he said, which is a tribute to his character. My thoughts are with his lovely family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican Missouri Rep. 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