The Missouri Senate hopeful who sparked national outrage with his "legitimate rape" comment was arrested at least eight times for picketing abortion clinics, new records reveal.
The Huffington Post has learned Todd Akin was arrested on suspicion of trespassing at medical clinics that performed abortions on at least four occasions in the 1980s.
That's in addition to the four arrests he's already disclosed.
During one of Akin's arrests between 1985 and 1987, police reportedly had to physically carry him into an elevator after he refused to leave Reproductive Health Services clinic in St. Louis County.
Akin, who has said he won't apologize for standing up for his beliefs, made headlines in August when he said women who are legitimately raped won't get pregnant.
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Akin said on a local TV talk show.
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