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amborin

(16,631 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:34 PM Oct 2012

GOP Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A 'Gift from God' (Think Progress)

GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A ‘Gift From God’

By Ian Millhiser and Travis Waldron posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Oct 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm

"GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney & Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock
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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GOP Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A 'Gift from God' (Think Progress) (Original Post) amborin Oct 2012 OP

Please, won't someone invent a time machine? enlightenment Oct 2012 #1

and Romney endorsed this candidate; no surprise there: amborin Oct 2012 #2

Time to cue up this endorsement and the comment exboyfil Oct 2012 #5

Just saw the video of this worm on MSNBC...and now Mourdock has backtracked! LOL!! nt. OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #3

Wait a second let me get this straight... sheshe2 Oct 2012 #4

Coat hangers and other abortifacients are also "gifts" from gawd. Jackass nt riderinthestorm Oct 2012 #6

bullshit libodem Oct 2012 #7

what a hideous thing to say cherish44 Oct 2012 #8

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

1. Please, won't someone invent a time machine?

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:40 PM

Oct 2012

Then we can send these idiots back to their Puritan brethren in Plymouth colony. We would all be much happier.

amborin

(16,631 posts)

2. and Romney endorsed this candidate; no surprise there:

Reply to enlightenment (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:42 PM

Oct 2012

"Earlier this week, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney starred in an ad calling upon Indiana voters to “join me in supporting Richard Mourdock for U.S. Senate.” This is the first time this election that Romney cut such an ad for a fellow Republican candidate. "