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Thursday, October 25th, 2012

Richard Mourdock On Abortion: Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘Something God Intended’

Author:     MICHAEL MCAULIFF
Source:     The Huffington Post
Publication Date:     10/23/2012 9:29 pm EDT
 Link: Richard Mourdock On Abortion: Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘Something God Intended’
Stephan:   The election squeezes the truth out of people, whether they want to share it or not. The truth is in the Theocratic Right the rights of a zygote trumps those of a female old enough to be fertile. It denies her right to control her own body. That's the fact and, although it may be inconvenient to the Republicans to acknowledge it, it should be borne in mind by every woman voting. Do you believe you should control your body? You should take this question very seriously. Click through to see the actual video.

WASHINGTON — Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in rape because ‘it is something that God intended to happen.’

Debating Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate race showdown, a questioner asked them and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning to explain their views on abortion.

All three said they were anti-abortion. But Mourdock went the further, putting himself in territory near Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, the anti-abortion congressman who infamously asserted that women don’t get pregnant from ‘legitimate rape.’

‘The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother,’ said Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed state treasurer. ‘I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.’

Mourdock unseated veteran Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in the May primary, and has battled Donnelly for the longtime senator’s supporters since. Abortion has been a touchy issue for the candidates, with Mourdock accusing Donnelly of lacking strength on the issue because Donnelly backed the health […]

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