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Gabrielle Union is pissed about a comment made by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin recently about rape. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Missouri Rep. Todd Akin who opposes abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, sparked a major controversy when he told an interviewer over the weekend that in cases of “legitimate rape,” women won’t get pregnant:

From what I understand from doctors … if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Now I don’t know what you learned in biology, but a woman’s body is not able to detect when sex is consensual, or illegitimate to reject a man’s sperm!

Gabrielle Union, who is a rape survivor, appeared on MSNBC and shared the following:

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