Americans United for Life (founded by Brent Bozell) source for Akin rape propaganda (Post-Dispatch)
"The question of rape always stirs the emotions whenever it is introduced into the abortion debate," Dr. Fred Mecklenburg wrote in 1972. "Unfortunately, the emotional impact of rape often clouds the real issues and the real facts."
Mecklenburg — an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Minnesota Medical School at the time — could not have known how prescient his words would feel 40 years later.
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The book was edited by a doctor and a lawyer, and funded by Americans United for Life, the major legal arm of the anti-abortion movement.
Americans United for Life was founded by Brent Bozell, a Catholic activist (and William F. Buckley's brother-in-law) who wrote for the National Review.
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