Claim: U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin was "partly right" that a woman's body has a way of shutting down so that a pregnancy doesn't occur if she's raped.
Fact-check: Gingrey defense of Akin's rape comments misses the mark
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Janel Davis;Eric Stirgus
Date published: 2013-01-16T00:00:00