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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 09:39 PM Oct 2012

GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A ‘Gift From God’ [View all]

NEW ALBANY, Indiana — At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:

I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/23/1078181/gop-us-senate-candidate-calls-rape-pregnancies-a-gift-from-god/

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GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A ‘Gift From God’ [View all] Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP

"...it is something God intended to happen." Someone please make this crap stop now livetohike Oct 2012 #1

See comment #3 n/t Tx4obama Oct 2012 #4

I hope he gets cancer; another gift from God Xipe Totec Oct 2012 #2

Mitt Romney Cuts Ad For Richard Mourdock, Calls Him '51st Vote' To Repeal Obamacare (VIDEO) Tx4obama Oct 2012 #3

Thanks! livetohike Oct 2012 #7

UPDATE: Romney camp tells TPM: “Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock’s comments.... Tx4obama Oct 2012 #8

So when my Older sister was Brutally raped at the age of 11 and became pregnant as a result of that Heather MC Oct 2012 #5

Please make them stop. LittleGirl Oct 2012 #6

I don't know what outrages me more. iandhr Oct 2012 #9

I Hope Indiana Voters Hear This Clip lib87 Oct 2012 #10

I hope it's all over the news everywhere tomorrow in Indiana. n/t Tx4obama Oct 2012 #11

Are all the crazies in the country running for office this time around?! *sigh* Rhiannon12866 Oct 2012 #12

Apparently on the Republican side, YES! Tx4obama Oct 2012 #14

And here's another attack on women ... Tx4obama Oct 2012 #15

Actually, if you think about it... MisterGamut Oct 2012 #13