Gingrich on ABC: 'GET OVER IT' Mourdock’s Rape Comments Are What ‘Virtually Every Catholic’ Believes

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51. I hate this BULLSHIT. Rape has nothing to do with abortion.

Every sane person believes rape is bad.

Sane people can go either way on the abortion issue. Which way people go often depends upon their religious beliefs.

Since there is a wall between church and state written into our Constitution the state has no business interfering with the availability of safe abortions for any woman. The woman decides. It's her body. No further argument, done. Even if a woman believes in an anti-abortion deity then it's between her and her deity, not the state.

Most people in my religiously insane family are anti-abortion. But they are not the sort to picket Planned Parenthood with offensive signs. Some of them have worked at Planned Parenthood and similar institutions; they just don't have anything to do with abortions. There is a fundamental understanding that others do not share their religious beliefs.

When I was a young man and my mom was driving around with "Choose Life" license plate frames she always impressed upon me and my large litter of siblings that any babies we brought home would be welcomed into the family no matter what the circumstances of their conception. But the mere thought of adding another kid to my mom's hoard of children was too much to contemplate. Not me, nor any of my siblings had kids until we were good and ready to support them ourselves.

My mom also told us about birth control. She'd already faced that religious crisis in her own life. The doctor said, "No more babies. Somebody might die." So she and my dad got practical. Me and my siblings were very practical.

Looking around in my own church most couples are practical and use birth control. I don't see many large liters of kids like the one I grew up in. For these couples it's between them and God and church or state don't have any say in the matter.