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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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