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Here we go again.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mourdock-pregnancies-from-rape-something-that-god-intended
Mourdock: Rape Pregnancies Something That God Intended to Happen
ERIC KLEEFELD 8:13 PM EDT, TUESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2012
At the final debate in the Indiana Senate race, held Tuesday night, Republican nominee Richard Mourdock explained his opposition to abortion in the cases of rape or incest. In the course of the explanation Mourdock suggested that rape should not be an exception to a ban on abortion, since rape pregnancies are themselves the will of God.
"You know, this is that issue for that every candidates for federal, or even state office, faces. And I, too, certainly stand for life," said Mourdock, after both Democrat Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning had identified as pro-life. "I know there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have, to have an abortion, is in that case of the life of the mother."
Mourdock then seemed to choke back tears, and continued: "I've struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen." (Emphasis added.)
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Did his god cheer the rapist on, even if the rapist had to get violent to get an erection?
Women must not mean much to Mourdock's god.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Lars39
(26,116 posts)in his nether regions every time he says pro-rapist shit like this. Sorry, JaneyVee, I've just lost patience with these idiots.
That's about the best case for the separation of church and state I ever heard.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)The wife is to obey.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
REP
(21,691 posts)No wonder I don't believe in that god, 'cause he sucks.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)msongs
(67,453 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)theglammistress
(348 posts)Just plain disgusted, actually.