Rape survivor Shauna Prewitt on Akin's 'horrifying' comments
2,820 views · Published 23 August 2012 · 14:40 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Channel 4 News · 2012 · News & Politics
A heart-rending interview with a very courageous woman who became pregnant after being raped. Shauna Prewitt, from Chicago, was raped seven years ago, when she was 21, and decided after much soul-searching to keep the baby. She has written an incredibly powerful letter to Todd Akin, the Republican Congressman who this week threw a grenade into his party's election campaign by declaring that victims of "legitimate rape" wouldn't get pregnant because "the female body" had a way of "shutting down".
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