W. Todd Akin: “There is something that smells, doesn't it? This thing has been sitting around for about a half a year, and the more…”

“There is something that smells, doesn't it? This thing has been sitting around for about a half a year, and the more people find out about it, the more they hate it. A week or two ago, I just started making a list of all the people who would hate this bill, and there are just circles of Americans, one on top of the other. If you are an older person you don't want all that half a trillion dollars taken out of Medicare. If you are pro-life you think, well, I don't like abortion. Well, if you don't like abortion, how do you like the fact that your taxpayer dollar that you are forced to pay is paying for abortion? That to me is different than just--I mean one thing people talk about is choice. I don't call it choice, I call it killing children. But even if you accept the idea of choice, some people think abortion is okay, some people think it is not. But to take the people who think it is not and force them to pay to do abortions where they think it is killing a child even if other people don't, no wonder people don't like this thing. Or illegal immigrants getting medical care on the back of the taxpayer. I could see there are so many people that wouldn't like it.”