WASHINGTON -- Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) was arrested on four more occasions in the 1980s for trespassing at medical clinics than previously disclosed, according to incident reports obtained by The Huffington Post. These arrests are in addition to the four others that Akin has already acknowledged.
Akin -- who went by his first name, William, before getting involved in politics -- participated in anti-abortion protests in the 1980s, during which he and other conservative activists were arrested for trespassing and/or resisting arrest at abortion clinics.
"Don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird," Akin joked in 2011 at a "pastor's briefing," recounting an arrest. He later said he made no apologies for "stand[ing] up for the things I believe in."
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