Congressman Todd Akin asks forgiveness for rape remarks

Embattled Agent Todd Akin, who has acquired uproar by adage women's bodies could anticipate abundance in cases of "legitimate rape", is allurement for absolution in a new video.The blow was an credible last-ditch attack to accomplish apology with voters and adolescent Republicans who are ambitious the abandoned Senate applicant for Missouri quit.If he is to cull out, Mr Akin have to do so by Tuesday beneath a Missouri law that allows candidates to bead out 11 weeks afore polling day.He has until 17:00 bounded time (22:00 GMT) to abjure from the race.Last anniversary the sixth-term agent had a adequate advance in assessment acclamation over bounden Democrat Claire McCaskill in the Midwestern accompaniment of Missouri, which has leaned more bourgeois in contempo years.Then on Sunday, Mr Akin was asked by bounded account base KTVI-TV about his no-exceptions appearance on abortion.The 65-year-old agent said: "It seems to me, from what I accept from doctors, that is absolutely rare.If it's a accepted rape, the changeable physique has means to try to shut that accomplished affair down.Mr Akin took to the airwaves on two bourgeois radio shows on Monday in an attack to defuse the furore, and resisted calls from arresting Republicans to bead out of the race.