President Obama weighs in on Akin comments: ‘Rape is rape’

Mediaite - President Barack Obama took questions from the White House press corps for the first time in several weeks during Monday’s press briefing. Obama was asked for his comments on Missouri Senate candidateTodd Akin’s controversial statement in which he said that a woman’s body has the natural ability to abort a pregnancy that results from rape. “Rape is rape,” Obama said unequivocally.