No, it wasn't just a "grammatical error", as the Clueless Selfish Swine Todd Akin keeps insisting. I knew immediately what he meant by "legitimate rape". It's this bizarre statement (in bold) that's been setting off alarm bells:
"Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
Huh?? And this guy wants to be a United States' Senator?
Running for Office 101: Show up PREPARED for interviews!
And what was that?