Oops, it wasn’t Tim Hutchison in the 2002 Senate race who made the rape-pregnancy statement, it was Fay Boozman (also a Republican from NW Arkansas whose brother served in Congress) in the 1998 Senate race against Blanche Lincoln. Hutchinson lost in 2002 because he had an extramarital affair, not because he said anything particularly stupid. Sorry about that.
Right, I knew I didn’t hear that about Tim Hutch. Just about his affair. Didn’t his ex-wife back Pryor or something? Nasty.
As for Akin’s medical theory which I’ve never heard of before, it sounds like a nonsense old wives tale to me.