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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Christy Turlington, Women's Groups Try to Give Congress a Sex Education

U.S. News & World Report • October 22, 2012

> The "Educate Congress" effort comes two months after Missouri Rep. Todd Akin said in an interview that in "a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." His comment was widely criticized for being at odds with the science behind pregnancy.

  
**Read the full story:** [Christy Turlington, Women's Groups Try to Give Congress a Sex Education](http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/22/christy-turlington-womens-groups-try-to-give-congress-a-sex-education) by Elizabeth Flock

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