Rape, The Gift From God

NEW ALBANY, Indiana— At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly(D-IN), IndianaGOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:

I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.

This - along with their attempts to re-define and minimize the definition of rape - is another step in the long GOP walk around the objection to the plank in their platform that says abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother.  Because it is especially under those circumstances that most  Americans recoil in horror at a proposed abortion ban.

And for all those who think they can't do anything about this guy because they don't live and vote in Dumfuckistan, great news, Romney cut an ad for this neanderthal just yesterday.  A vote against Romney is a vote againt Mourdock.  A vote against the GOP is a vote against this agenda. Or put another way: any vote, anywhere, for any Republican is a vote against  a woman's right to govern over her own body and her own life.