“If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down,” Todd Akin explained to a St. Louis TV station in 2012 before losing his race for US Senate Todd Akin went on to claim that if the female body does not shut down and a baby is born it will be a special little child.Todd Akin gave the following example: “I had a number of people in my campaign that were children…who were conceived in rape.”