Ann Coulter is an idiot. Akin needs to double down on the side of life and stand on his principles.
It is not legal to kill the rapist, but it is legal to murder the baby.
Something is seriously broke.
Sorry xzins, I have to disagree with you on this one. In the primaries, Santorum was hit with essentially the same question and handled it with great aplomb. He pointed out a recent Supreme Court ruling striking down a Louisiana Law making rape a capital crime (under some circumstances). Rick pointed out that the same system of laws that prevents the execution of the criminal, protects the killing of the unborn child, and spoke about how one act of violence should not beget another. All Akin had to do was parrot Rick.
Nowhere did Santorum discuss female biological responses to trauma, "legitimate" rape, etc. For everybody that says Akin was boldly defending life, it seems, in comparison to Santorum's remarks, Akin was the one trying to split hairs, and exploring extraneous detail.
Sorry, but the whole idea of forcing a woman to bear a rape child is an absolute dead loser at the polls. Not only with voters as a whole, but to a substantial cross-section of conservatives.