Republicans divided in response to Senate candidate's rape comment | Fox News: NEW ALBANY, Ind. – Republicans leaders were divided Wednesday in their response to the latest controversy about a candidate's comments regarding rape -- Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's remark that pregnancy resulting from rape can be "something that God intended."
Mourdock made the comment when asked during a debate Tuesday 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.
The candidate explained afterward that he was referring to the pregnancy, and nothing else.
"God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does," he said in a statement. "Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick."
The comment comes after Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin said in August that women's bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." Akin has repeatedly apologized but has refused to leave his race despite calls to do so by leaders of his own party, including Romney.
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This day and age with women having more freedom in choosing who they marry...
Conservatives are more likely to marry Conservatives and the political divide just keeps on getting bigger and bigger.
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