Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm curious; Akin also seems oblivious to the fact that it's the "woman's body has ways" quote that has damned him.
He probably wouldn't even have made the local news for the "legitimate rape" line.
There isn’t anything in the whole of his thought at the time that merits making a mountain of it. Why we buy into liberal fear and PC is beyond me. Let him say what he wants. There’s plenty of time to hear him out on what he really means, and what policies he advocates based on his thought. But to damn him for one string of words prompted by the liberal penchant for frolicking in manure? Pfft.