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Todd Akin may have just met his match in Tom Smith, another Republican U.S. Senate candidate who made controversial remarks about rape this week. Smith, who was ironically trying to distance himself from the Todd Akin legitimate rape controversy, likened pregnancy from rape to any conception outside marriage. The Pennsylvanian said that while he condemns Akin’s comment, he agrees that abortion should be banned without exceptions, including for rape. Asked how he would handle a daughter or granddaughter getting pregnant as a result of rape, Smith said he had already “lived something similar to that.”