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$1 MILLION
CASH REWARD
TO
TODD AKIN
U.S. Senate Candidate and Representative From Missouri
FROM
LARRY FLYNT
Dear Mr. Akin,
I am offering you
$1 million in cash
, to be deposited in any bank you designate inthe United States, Cayman Islands or Switzerland, for proof to substantiate your statement on August 19, 2012: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Please send me evidence that supports your special knowledge that women who areraped will naturally not get pregnant. I assume that you would never have ventured such an original statement about women’s reproductive biology, and suggested that women should have no fear of unwanted pregnancy from rapists, unless you have in your possession completely conclusive scientific evidence.You must have felt so confident in the proof at your fingertips that you could dismissthe research published in the Journal of American Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1996,based on thousands of women over a three-year period, that stated: “The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women, an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result fromrape each year.” In order to collect your $1 million cash reward, I will accept from you any proof in the form of scientific, peer-reviewed studies conducted by acknowledged experts in the field, published in accredited scientific or medical journals—or notarized statements collected by you, your campaign staff or the Romney/Ryan campaign from 10,000 rapevictims asserting that not one of them ever got pregnant as a result of being raped.This offer is valid until 11:59 P.M. (CT) on November 5, 2012.
Sincerely yours,Larry Flynt
