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Photo credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks during the New York State Democratic Party delegation breakfast event in Charlotte North Carolina. The delegation is in town for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. (Sept. 5, 2012)
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On stage for a panel discussion here, Ashley Judd, the actress and activist, spoke of women she met in war-torn parts of Africa who conceived children as a result of rape. Suddenly she made an obscene hand-on-arm gesture -- and declared it her message to Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri GOP Senate candidate who suggested women can somehow block unwanted pregnancies in cases of...
