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**Damoney**

What an a$$clown this dweeb must be!

An incendiary gaffe on abortion raised eyebrows after a recent debate between US Senate candidates in Indiana. Republican Richard Mourdock suggested that a woman being impregnated by rape is “something that God intended to happen.”

Mourdock, a Tea Party-backed candidate, was pitted against Democratic and Libertarian rivals at the Tuesday event. He expressed his belief that life began at conception, and that abortion should be illegal even in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.

“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God,” Mourdock said. “And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

Democratic challenger Joe Donnelly, an anti-abortion politician himself, immediately pounced on the comment, questioning the notion that God would “intend for rape to happen.”

"The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen – ever," Donnelly said. "What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape."

http://rt.com/usa/news/mourdock-rape-comment-gaffe-103/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5753...-intended/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23...07482.html

**Zardoz** · (This post was last modified: 10-24-2012 03:56 PM by Zardoz.)

He's an anti-abortion/pro-lifer. I've talked to them over the years and this opinion is standard. They'll say stuff like: "Well, think of all the times you have sex in your life. You don't get pregnant every time. If you get pregnant during a rape, it's God's will because it's life and that doesn't happen all the time."

Then, they'll tell a story about someone they know that was conceived via rape and what a wonderful person that person is. My next question is, "Why does God make people who are related (brother/sister, father/daughter etc) conceive babies that are deformed?" (It's God's will, they'll say.) It's been mostly WOMEN whom I've met that have espoused this philosophy.

People are programmed primarily by religion on this topic..

**Jessica6** · **Jessica6** Tired... User ID: 129275 10-24-2012 04:45 PM **Posts: 5,137**

I wonder how often these are 'gaffes' or whether it's done with the intent to inflame since the backlash is so predictable as well.