[Dr. Sivana]

I tried to find a link for that and couldn’t find it.

That's largely because I was citing from memory. I was a sidewalk counselor at that mill during the time. I met at least one of the women who went in with the substitute sample. This particular operation was largely covered in a series in the Chicago Sun-Times called "Meet the Abortion Providers" back in 1979 (Florendo was also involved in Medicaid fraud, among other things). Unfortunately, that paper does not do a good job of providing archives on line.

It is rare that an MSM publication does such good work. The "Meet the Abortion Providers" series in '79 was one. The Washington Post's publication of Stephen Mosher's coverage of Red China's One-Child policy was another. An article in Harpers' by Tom Bethell (1983?) sympathetic to Creationism, and focusing on taxonomists who admitted that the discussion was largely political was a third. Such publications are rarer these days.

[Lorianne]

That’s the problem.

While I am certain what Akin said has happened, there seems to be no record of it. No evidence. The women who this happened to would be none the wiser, it’s a perfect scam.

The only evidence would if some abortion mill worker came forward and said “we did abortions on women who were not pregnant” and her story was corroborated. I can’t find anything of the sort.

So WHY THE HELL does Akin make comments like this that he cannot back up (even if it’s perfectly plausible that they could be true)? Does it help him win?

NO.

A stand by my opinion of this man from the beginning. He is an idiot.