Teabagger and GOP Ind. U.S. Senate candidate: Pregnancy From Rape Is 'Something God Intended'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

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."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/richard-mourdock-abortion_n_2007482.html

[dogman]

1. Please correct header

Illinois doesn't need any more teabaggers.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. a thousand apologies

fixed - no offense intended to Illinois

[faithfulcitizen]

2. It's Indiana! not Illinios, and this is who my fellow hoosiers ousted Dick Lugar for!

[Downwinder]

4. So if you get any illness, it is God's will and you should not have treatment.

[Squinch]

5. Or if you get stabbed in the gut in a mugging, they should leave the knife in there.

Because it's God's will that it got in there in the first place.

But again I go back to the thought I always have: "Why does this cretin even have thoughts in his head about what I should be doing with my body? There is no universe in which this is any of his business."

[Downwinder]

7. I guess I will have to get dispensation for getting treatment

for MS. It might have been God's will for me to go postal.

So why do we complain about 9/11? It was God's will, otherwise it would not have happened.

[Squinch]

10. The mind boggles when you try to follow this logic down.

[truebluegreen]

6. Gosh, I thought women's bodies could shut those rape sperm down...

isn't that what God intended? If not, how did that happen?

feeling very, very confused....

[BlueDemKev]

8. And this POS will still get elected...

...because Indiana has been brainwashed into believing that voting Republican is in their best interests.

[caraher]

9. It was a tight race before

There's a great chance this gaffe will tip the seat to the Democrat!

Sadly, the Indiana governor's race has been a blowout in the polls all along...