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Step up and explain your connection to Dr. Willke, and his unusual beliefs, and do it soon.
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However, the doctor is not going to make it that easy for the candidate as Willke has chosen not to remain silent in the face of the storm.
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Dr. Willke said Monday that he stood by his article.
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Governor Romney hopes that by remaining silent and focusing all of the ill will onto the shoulders of Todd Akin, he can run out the clock on the controversy and insulate himself from having to answer for his own relationship with Dr. Willke.
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One article, written by Jack Willke, a Cincinnati physician and antiabortion campaigner and published in an antiabortion group's newsletter in 1999, concluded that "assault rape pregnancies are extremely rare" and that pregnancy could result from as few as one in 1, 000 cases of rape.
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Unlike Barack Obama, who never publicly endorsed or discussed the views of Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he was called upon to reject Wright following the massive effort to tie the men together, Governor Romney has been open, obvious and gushing in his praise of Dr. Willke.
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