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Rob Brooks, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at University of New South Wales, articulates the issues nicely in Shutting that whole thing down: Todd Akin, rape, pregnancy and abortion.   Akins' "pseudo-medical contention that “the female body has ways to try shut that whole thing down.” That is an assertion that strays right into my research spe…