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Richard Mourdock Stands by Rape, Abortion Remark While GOP Candidates Disavow His Comment

Oct. 24, 2012 11:31pm Jason Howerton

Richard Mourdock Stands by Rape, Abortion Remark While GOP Candidates Disavow His Statement

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock speaks during a news in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, to explain the comment he made during last night Senate debate. Mourdock said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, “that’s something God intended.” Mourdock has been locked in a close contest with Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly. (Credit: AP)

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats’ advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate’s awkward remark – that if rape leads to pregnancy it’s “something God intended” – has propelled the emotional issue of abortion back to the political forefront. It’s put GOP candidates in tight races, from the presidential candidate on down, on the defensive.

Divisive social issues are hardly what most GOP candidates want to be discussing in the few days remaining until elections largely hinging on jobs and the economy. Almost immediately after Richard Mourdock’s comment, Republican candidates distanced themselves from the Indiana state treasurer – though by varying degrees.

The Romney campaign said Wednesday that the presidential nominee disagreed with Mourdock but stood by his endorsement of the Senate candidate. There were no plans to drop a Romney testimonial ad for Mourdock that began airing in Indiana on Monday.

Mourdock’s comment in a Tuesday night debate came in answer to a question on when abortion should or should not be allowed. Said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul: “We disagree on the policy regarding exceptions for rape and incest but still support him.”

Reaction was quick from Republican senators and candidates rejecting Mourdock’s statement.

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, struggling to hold onto his seat against a challenge from Democrat Elizabeth Warren, said he was “a pro-choice Republican and that’s not what I believe and I disagree with what he said.” Pressed on his support for Mourdock’s candidacy, Brown said that was up to Indiana voters.

Connecticut Republican Linda McMahon, bidding for the Senate seat there, called Mourdock’s remarks “highly inappropriate and offensive. They do not reflect my beliefs as a woman or a pro-choice candidate.”

New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who had planned to campaign with Mourdock in Indiana, canceled her appearance.

In Wisconsin, former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, who faces Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, called Mourdock’s comments “really sad.”

“I’ve got a wife and two daughters and six granddaughters,” he said in an interview. “Anything dealing with rape against women is uncalled for. Period. No tolerance whatsoever.”

Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, told CNN that his continued support of Mourdock “depends on what he does.” The Arizona lawmaker who was the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, said he wants to see “if he apologizes and says he misspoke and he was wrong and asks people to forgive him. It’s when you don’t own up to it that people will not believe in you.”

Watch the former GOP presidential candidate’s interview with CNN here:

Mourdock’s debate comment recalled GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s remark in August about rape and pregnancy. The Missouri congressman said women’s bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.” Republicans, led by Romney, called for Akin to abandon the race, but he refused and is pressing ahead against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Romney and several Republicans have been moderating their positions in the campaign’s closing days, making their final pitch to the independents, undecideds and female voters whose votes could tip both the presidential election and majority control of the Senate. Recent national polls have shown Obama’s edge with female voters shrinking to single digits.

Mourdock’s comment rattled the races, including his own surprisingly competitive contest with Rep. Joe Donnelly. Mourdock had prevailed over six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in a bitter GOP primary in May.

Democrats, who have pushed the narrative of a Republican “war on women,” eagerly made Mourdock’s comment an issue for Romney and Senate GOP candidates. The Democrats are increasingly hopeful that they can hold their slim Senate advantage despite defending 23 seats to the GOP’s 10.

The Obama campaign said the president found Mourdock’s comments “outrageous and demeaning to women,” and it contended they were “a reminder that a Republican Congress working with a Republican President Mitt Romney would feel that women should not be able to make choices about their own health care.”

Said spokeswoman Jen Psaki of Romney: “It is perplexing that he wouldn’t demand to have that ad taken down.”

On Tuesday night, Mourdock was asked during the closing minutes of a debate with Donnelly whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.

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

At a news conference Wednesday, the state treasurer stood by his statement but suggested he had been misunderstood.

“I think that God can see beauty in every life,” Mourdock said. “Certainly, I did not intend to suggest that God wants rape, that God pushes people to rape, that God wants to support or condone evil in any way.”

Another tea party-backed candidate, Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., said last week that medical advances mean women no longer die in pregnancies and the exceptions for abortion are unnecessary. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists called that comment inaccurate since “pregnancy is not a risk-free life event.” The organization said more than 600 women die each year from pregnancy or childbirth-related reasons.

As for Mourdock, the National Republican Senatorial Committee stood by its candidate and argued that his words were being taken out of context.

“Richard and I, along with millions of Americans – including even Joe Donnelly – believe that life is a gift from God. To try and construe his words as anything other than a restatement of that belief is irresponsible and ridiculous,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the committee.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said it is “incredibly irresponsible for anyone to take what Richard said about his views on life to demean his opposition to the detestable act of rape.”

Cornyn had criticized Akin in August and called on him to abandon the Missouri race at a time when the GOP had a chance to put a replacement candidate on the ballot. Republicans have no opportunity now to make a change 13 days to the election in Indiana.

This month, the Republican Senatorial Committee has spent more than $1.2 million on ads criticizing Donnelly. The Republican-favoring group Crossroads GPS invested nearly $1.1 million on Wednesday to run ads against the Democrat.

In the most competitive Senate races, however, Republicans were quick to react negatively.

In Arizona, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake’s campaign said his “pro-life position has always included exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother, so he does not agree with some of the comments made by other candidates on this issue.”

Still, Flake’s rival, former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, tried to use the firestorm over Mourdock’s remark in the Arizona race.

“Jeff Flake’s record is in lockstep with the ignorant and dangerous comments and positions we’ve seen come from U.S. Senate candidates across the country,” said Elizabeth Kenigsberg, a Carmona campaign spokeswoman.

In Nevada, Republican Sen. Dean Heller also disagreed with the comments from Mourdock. Heller is in a close race with Democrat Shelley Berkley.

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Comments (76)

nilo
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:39am
Mr. Mourdock, I understand what your are saying. You should mabye follow up with reinfordcing your statement that there is no way that God would want the innocent fetus aborted. Certainly the mother being raped is innocent in that conception — it is the rapist that should be executed, not the unborn child that resulted from his horrible act. When is it just in God’s eyes to end an innocent life. Hasn’t there been a continuing battle against the LEFT over murdering the unborn? Who can’t understand that? Or are some of you republicans taking the Obama stand: “I don’t want my daughter burdened with a child”. This is all about preserving life, not finding excuses to end it. You won’t find one Bible teaching that excuses abortion. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS AND STAND FOR LIFE!!

Mr. Mourdock spoke a deeper Truth than his critics understand.

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- kenboo1
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 8:10am
  I concur… Why are there pompous and arrogant politicians (mainly men) that think they know what is best for women in such a terrible situation. Here we have too Senators talking about something they know nothing about…
  
  As far as God’s plan goes. I take Benjamin Franklin’s point of view; there is a God, he expects us to help each other. I also look at the girl (cant remember her name) abducted and held for years in her abductors back yard, raped and delivered not one but two children. Life throws us all kinds of curve balls, we first have to choose to stand at the plate and take a swing at them…
  
  I don’t have any answers, other than help someone if you can and love your neighbors…
  
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- mskitty38583
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:00am
  mr murdock you sir are an ass….i am ashamed to say that i am a conservative when i look at your stupid face. GOD DOES NOT CAUSE HARM, GOD DOES NOT CAUSE DEATH YOU SIR ARE AN IDIOT AND NEED TO LEARN TO THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. i take offense to his comment ” that if rape leads to pregnancy it’s “something God intended”, God does not intend anything of the sort. i understand what he was trying to say, however YOU SAID IT WRONG….according to any cellular biologist, a cell is a living entity (all cellular biologist will tell you that any cell IS A LIVING ENTITY), when 2 living cells come together they merge and make 1 bigger living cell…. this is called a child. if half a cell is a living entity then 2 cells merged is a living entity….liberals want to murder unborn children but throw fits with someone who is on death row for murdering another person…. abortion is wrong it violates the social norms, the moral code and the right to live.
  
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- PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:15am
  We on the conservative side need to stop eating our own. Yeah what he said may seem offensive but he was trying to say that God can turn something tragic into a blessing. Life is a gift from God. The genocide needs to end now. 50 million dead babies since R v W! I pray that this nation stops the genocide and begs forgiveness for this national disgrace.
  TEA
  R&R
  
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- kat747
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:35am
  Sounds good.
  But now you have a real problem……….END RAPE !
  
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- Man-On-A-Mission
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 11:43am
  So if you believe in GOD.. by this statement you believe that GOD set’s up women to be raped and impregnated????
  
  That is not the GOD I believe in…the GOD of Abraham….David…Moses……
  
  What GOD do you pray to Mohammad……because that is more of an Islamic belief!!!!!!!!
  
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- Valuable
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:12pm
  Amen.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:27pm
  Yes, I have to stand with this man who stands for life. Of course the unborn child who can also be a girl, had no part in that rape. Should an innocent child get the Death Penalty for what a rapist did? This is no easy situation since no woman wants to remember a rape when she looks at her growing belly. This child is genetically hers also. More awareness is needed of what’s actually behind the belly. There’s the beating heart of someone’s future soulmate. Women many times blame themselves when raped and having this reminder must be awful. But if you were to realize that it’s an innocent life growing, something miraculous and “clean”, maybe that child could live and turn an awful violation into a new beginning. As a woman I stand for the innocent life that did nothing to deserve death.
  
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Vindex
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:21am
OK all you dolts listen to what actually happened. Mourdock opposes abortion in the event of rape because he values life–that is his principled position. He also unequivocally stated he abhors rape and all forms of violence. This was nothing like the Akin comments at all. He stated that life is a gift from God–even a life that starts in such an abhorrent way. So, should the many unborn such as Angelina Jolie’s child that were conceived in a rape have been aborted? Mourdock essentially answered just as WatchingTheWeasels #2 retort. All of you here seem to have bought into the media spin. The only mistake Mourdock really made was when he called out Washington in the press conference yesterday–he should have went Gingrich and called out the media. And by the way, he will still win the Indiana seat.

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- mskitty38583
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:07am
  i know he opposes abortion, he chose he words very unwisely..i understand that abortion is a hot topic now being that we are not sure how many supreme court justices we are going to have to defend life. the way that this was stated was really bad….i still think hes an idiot for saying what he said. God does not intend anything….He has a divine plan…. unprovoked violence against another human is not in this plan…i applaud him for his stand against abortion but he needs someone to write his statements so he does not continue to look like an idiot and make statements that make him sound like a liberal idiot.
  
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- BuzzardSays
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:10pm
  To MsKitty38583,
  Concerning Mr Mourdoch on needing someone to write his statements.
  Uh Hello…Pot….this is Kettle. Your black.
  
  Calm down…read your bible and ask the Holy Spirit what God would want. You might find that your emotional state is overriding your spiritual state of understanding.
  
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NOFX
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:00am
Mourdock, the Republican Party was doing extremely well. They were 2nd and goal. But you decided to run your own play and Obama just sacked you all the way back to a safety. Obama was on Leno last night and he quickly took advantage of your comments, added some simplistic explanation mocking the party, and the crowd just ate it up. Nice job, *******.

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ginjit.dw
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:58am
Isn’t this site all about “speaking your mind”?? Then when someone does he gets ostracized??! We need to be unafraid to express our opinions without censorship or ridicule.

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- NealPatrick
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:05am
  There is speaking your mind, like a 5 year old without judgement, and there is keeping your focus on the end-site goal and using your brain about what you say in the middle of one of the most important, close elections in decades.
  
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NealPatrick
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:51am
Thanks Mourdock, you big stupid clown, for giving Obama the perfect opportunity to point at Romney and say “see what this party is like?”

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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:58am
  Obama needs to be kept on the run with his murderous “Fast and Furious, and now “Bengazi”. Certainly, if you don’t understand the words of Mr. Mourdock, you are perhaps blinded to the truth.
  Seek Truth, it will set you free.
  Who was it that said, “I am the truth”?
  
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ginjit.dw
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:48am
Like McCain never uttered an insensitive remark. This fossil should retire already. This relic got whooped by the organizer in chief because he was afraid to speak his mind. McCain Feingold is working real well right john…… What a tool?????????

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- blanco5
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:01am
  I think mccain has shown us whose side he’s really on.
  
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- NOFX
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:04am
  I think everyone at some point gets censored by The Blaze. They’ve nailed me a few times.
  
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Southerner01
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:12am
If he had any common sense, or decent campaign advisors, he would apologize for the unfortunate phrasing, explain that he views all life as a gift, that the child conceived of rape is the second victim of the rapist, that God does not indend for rape to occur and that the comment was unscripted and came out sounding like something other than intended. Instead he seems to be doubling down on the original comment. Really unwise, but some people just cannot admit to making mistakes. Hubris will be his downfall.

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FloraBelleza
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:12am
Those are the fakes Republicans, who they think they are to criticize him, that one the are no sin, troll the first stone. Besides, I agreed with him, a baby is a miracle of GOD.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 9:14am
  so you must be against the death penalty?
  
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FloraBelleza
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:08am
Those are the fakes Republicans, who they think they are to criticize him, that one the are no sin, troll the first stone.

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- NealPatrick
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:56am
  Oh please, a woman who has been raped wants a constant reminder of that in the form of a child? Mom, who is my dad? I don’t know son, some man who raped me.
  
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- kat747
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 10:39am
  …….and you wonder how she will treat that child,
  especially if the rapist gave her AIDS or a STD that took away her ability to have more children
  with her husband.
  You have to stop rape.
  
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jesustheway
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:20am
Of course God intended it to happen, the same way God intends bees to pollinate flowers while collecting nectar and pollen, though bees don’t have a conscious realization of the results of their actions as humans do. So someone commits a crime, and the result is life. Still, God’s laws prevail, and nature, created by God, takes it’s course. The pinnacle of God’s creation is man.
“…God saw how good it was. Then God said: ‘ Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals
and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.’

God created man in his image;
in the divine image he created him;
male and female he created them.” (Genesis 2:25-27)
Dominion over all is GIVEN to man by God, but still it is God that creates through nature with man’s participation. We bury the dead, we don’t bury the living. We kill that which harms life, such as cancerous tumors, viruses, rabid dogs. What is allowed to be killed for the sake of convenience–a weed, a roach, a mouse, a termite, a fly, a spide

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- jesustheway
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:34am
  spider, an ant, or that which has begun forming in the womb by the hand of God, in the exact way we have formed?
  It is to be like Christ, to accept suffering for God’s plan.
  Which life holds more value than the other?
  Which one person has more right to exist than the other?
  If there is any moment after the moment of conception where it is acceptable to terminate the development of the person on the basis that it is not a person at that point, why is it essential that every living person today must go through that exact same development in order to exist?
  
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- NOFX
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:49am
  If Jesus Christ was the killer in the movie “Psycho” then THIS is the sermon he would give (pretty creepy).
  
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BookMDanno
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:42am
Books you’ll never see: “Winning Campaign Strategies” by McCain & Mourdock

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NOFX
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:25am
Theory 1: Richard Mourdock raped some woman on his campaign staff while running around Indiana. Now she is pregnant and, even though he paid her $10,000 cash to forgive him and keep her mouth shut, she is threatening to come forward and reveal that Mourdock cheated on his wife by raping one of the woman working on his campaign. She wants more money or she will take him down. So now Mourdock is making these crazy public statements, trying to make “gift” become synonymous with “rape” in case this woman goes public.

Theory 2: Mourdock has Tourette’s Syndrome and his ticks aren’t profanities. Instead, they are normal words that do not go together like “gift” and “rape”.

Theory 3: Mourdock is just a dumbass.

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spfoam1
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:52am
Comments like this are the self destruct button that always seem to get pushed by someone in the Repubican party. STFU already! I’ve watched this kind of this damage the Republican party over and over for decades. You stupid ^%(%(**%&^&.

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- BookMDanno
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:18am
  Totally agree; the desire to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is almost comical to watch. The guy couldn’t wait for this epiphany? The GOP doesn’t need loose canons dredging up social issues with the country at stake.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:05pm
  Social issues are the least important thing in this election. The Obama campaign will continue to bring them up because they can’t run on the important things and they know the GOP will stick their foot in their mouth about social issues. In 2008 Obama said himself “When you don’t have anything to run on, you make a big election out of small things” that is what he is doing now. We need to dismiss questions about social issues and stick to the conversation, stick to what is important. Social issues are personal issues, and at the most they are (or should be) decided by the state.
  
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:37am
I’d like to see conservatives avoid the landmine topic of abortion. Everyone knows we are against it. It’s also not feasible at this time to defeat it. We need to focus on the issues we can win on today.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:48am
  LEAVE THE MAN ALONE. Do we want MEN/WOMEN in CONGRESS who speak THEIR mind or the Party garbage? Besides: IF it became a life, it’s from GOD. PERIOD. it’s not an accident..it’s a BABY. This man is right, win or lose…he is right… a baby is a baby. The books are filled with unwanted babies who were spared by their mothers who became amazing people in the scheme of things.
  
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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 8:01am
  I disagree with you DOUGRAL. We must unite on all issues. We need to make clear who we are.
  
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Elena2010
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:28am
God is NOT responsible for the sins of men, or women…

God can work w/the broken pieces that sin leaves behind, but only when we choose to give Him the pieces we can find.

God has both active will — made Creation and us as the pinnacle of same; He also has passive will that gives us free will. God makes room in His sovereignty for us to make a mess of things. When we bring Him the mess, He can work it out for our good.

Rape and conception that may result are acts of human defiance and are sinful. Aborting a child conceived by the sinful and soul-murdering act of rape does not make the initial sin go away. Rather it compounds the sin and everyone is more broken than after the first sin was committed.

This country and society needs to take a more “Roman” view of adoption. Adoption is a much healthier outcome for the child and the mother who may not feel at all comfortable raising a child conceived by a rapist. The woman can heal in mind and soul by giving the child his or her life.

God is on the side of life, not death.

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- thekriplins13
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:38am
  Amen !
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:39am
  God created everything, ergo God created sin.
  
  Your God created a system knowing humans would sin which would then be passed onto their children, who just by being born are implicated in this sin, thus be worthy of an eternal torture.
  
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- libertyminded
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:00am
  Elena, I agree with you completely.
  
  What Mourdock stated is the truth. It is not the fault of the child if it was conceived in sin. That tiny life is just as precious had it been planned by two loving parents. Life, no matter how it is conceived is a gift from God. Aborting the child will NOT make the pain of the rape disappear or easier to bear. It only adds another dimension, another layer of indelible pain. But God can use that horrific ordeal and turn it into a blessing.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Moderationisbest — Your logic is flawed. Sin is the disobedience and defiance of God’s Law and consequent absence of God in humanity’s life. It is the misuse of OUR free will, not His doing.
  
  Jesus came to rollback the eternal effect of sin: death. In dying, Jesus puts to death, death itself. Eternal death has no power over the one who believes. The Holy Spirit assists the believer in resisting temptation to sin.
  
  We sinned and died inwardly and outwardly. Adam’s legacy was the proclivity to sin and the fact of physical death.
  
  God’s gift is life eternal and life renewed.
  
  God did not create sin. We humans “created” sin when we defied God, our Maker, Sustainer, and Friend.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Moderation, that is a very ignorant statement. God didn’t create sin. God abhors sin and wants nothing to do with sin. Good and evil exist and are preexisting of humans. Lucifer, who was cast out of Heaven for trying to take on God, tempted Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that was the Original Sin. Sin is sin because we know an act is evil yet we make the choice to do it anyway. An animal may do something similar but as it is a dumb animal and doesn’t know the difference, it is not evil. It would take too long to explain to you how good and evil preexist, and you wouldn’t understand it anyway. Go back to bashing religion, it makes you feel good about yourself.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:23am
I wonder what Mother Teresa would say……

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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:53am
  Any takers…..?
  
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thekriplins13
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:15am
Why turn your back on a Man for what he believes. They probably think the same thing themselves and are to chicken to admit it and lose a few votes. Stand up for God’s intentions the life never would have been created if God did not intend for it to be.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:38am
  Fine, but can it wait until after the election? Why is he talking about this stuff when he’s seen the trouble it’s caused Akin?
  
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:10am
MSM will run wild with this while completely ignoring the treasonous acts of the administration.

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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:59am
  This fake news story lead almost every CNN, MSNBC broadcast show opening tonight and was the lead story on all of the far-left sites like HuffPo etc. What a waste of time. Fox and The Blaze TV lead with Libya emails that indict Obama (possibly the biggest story of the year) and NBC & ABC lead with this stupid story. The media should be on trial for treason. Someone needs to organize a “media march” – gather a few hundred thousand people and demand the lies and propaganda to stop.
  
  Switching gears slightly, below is a link to “Jane Roe” (of Roe vs Wade) who just came out in an ad against Obama calling him a “baby killer” for his support of partial-birth abortions. THAT is a real story – THE ACTUAL JANE ROE coming out against Obama yet I bet the media won’t say a word. Redemption – just like how Darwin and Einstein saw the light and came out believing in God at the end of their lives.
  
  http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jane-roe-of-roe-v.-wade-airs-anti-obama-ad-in-florida
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:10am
Offensive to who? I personally do not believe that God acts in that way, but hey…things do happen for a reason and most of the bad crap happens out of ignorance. In fact all the bad Crap a.k.a ****, happens out of ignorance.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:21am
  Max — God does not cause men to rape and impregnate their victim. In saying thus implies that God is in league w/sin. God is without sin, so your and the rep’s ideas are not compatible w/what the Bible says about God, man, and sin.
  
  God works w/the woman and child to make it come out right in the end. See Romans chapter 8 for the details of what God can do when sinners such as we turn over our lives to Him. God can make good out of evil, but only when we give Him the broken pieces…at least the ones we can find.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 1:40am
  Your God created everything, ergo he created Sin.
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:57am
  Actually the way it’s said is God created choice, and Lucifer is the father of sin for choosing to rebel.
  
  But it seems most of these politicians have a religious belief where Satan doesn’t exist and everything is the fault of God.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:15pm
  Moderation, you are either extremely ignorant, or you are trolling. Either way, your obnoxiousness says more about you than it does about us. Gold star for you.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:59pm
  Well said, Sacred Honor, well said :-)
  
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NOFX
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:05am
“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen,” Mourdock said.
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You’re digging yourself in deeper and deeper, dude. Just say “LIFE is a GIFT” and then stop talking!!

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:05am
You can see who the Cowards are when they won’t stand up for Conservative principles and moral values. All these others care about is votes, not truth or the fact that most times to love is not easy.

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TumbleBumble
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:04am
Mourdock is correct. God is the author of life. Who can tell me that God creates life, EXCEPT when a woman gets pregnant from being raped. Who breathed life into that baby? Is there a different answer?

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- Valuable
  Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:42pm
  Exactly, Tumbleweed!!
  
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Watchingtheweasels
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 12:00am
Facepalm. Hey Richard, did you ever think for a minute that you were asked this question at this point in time for a *reason*? And that reason might be to make you look foolish and throw the race to your dem opponent?

Acceptable answers:

1. While I am uniformly opposed to the position the left holds – that abortions of convenience are an acceptable form of birth control for any reason – rape is a horrible tragedy and as a politician I would never presume to tell a woman what she should do in such a situation.

Or, if you are opposed to rape and incest

2. Rape is a horrible tragedy, but I believe in the old saying that “two wrongs don’t make a right” and ending the life of an unborn child only deepens the tragedy.

Good grief, how come I can come up with this and some guy running for senate can’t?

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lexington_green
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:44pm
thanks dicky boy. you singlehandedly did something not todd akin nor the liberal media could do: you got the right turning on itself right before the most important election of all time. over abortion. great job. you just dumped a host of single women right back into obama’s lap. hope they don’t take their boyfriends back over the fence with them.

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- neverending
  Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:49pm
  Ya can’t make this stuff up!!!
  
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neverending
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 11:40pm
Hey mourdock – how about “engage brain” before speaking. Just keep right on shooting ourselves in the foot. All so unbelievable.

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