By Graham Smith PUBLISHED: 04:40 EST, 3 October 2012 | UPDATED: 09:14 EST, 3 October 2012 A Republican representative who shocked America when he said women don't become pregnant if they are victims of 'legitimate rape' has become embroiled in a new abortion row. Todd Akin, a nominee for Senate in Missouri, caused a national outcry in August by claiming that it was rare for a woman to become pregnant after being raped because the 'female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down'. Now footage has emerged of him claiming abortions are performed on women who 'are not actually pregnant'.
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Todd Akin, a nominee for Senate in Missouri, caused a national outcry in August by claiming that it was rare for a woman to get pregnant after rape
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Now footage from 2008 has emerged of him calling doctors who perform abortions 'terrorists' who work at hospitals mired in a 'culture of death'
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