Here’s Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who apparently has some sort of direct line to God, talking about abortion and rape at a debate earlier tonight:
I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.
Mourdock has now put out a statement trying to sort of retract what he said, and a spokeswoman for Romney, who has endorsed Mourdock, has distanced the presidential contender from Mourdock’s remarks. See Politico for more details.
oh moses smell the roses.
what a fucking choad.
But what if, you know, free will, or god not existing, or some unforseen circumstance that utterly disproves his argument?
If men could get pregnant he wouldn’t be blathering on about how rape pregnancies are part of God’s plan.
*headdesk*
Evidently this guy thinks God is a real jerk.
Why do the American people vote for these knuckleheads, seriously.
If he suffers a sudden stroke, should we assume it is also god’s will that he be denied assistance in overcoming it?
Yay! Divine aforeknowledge, and free will on a thread!
Too bad his argument itself is a logical fallacy. I think its affirming the consequent, but I’m not 100% sure.
I suspect if he allowed himself to think that some pregnancies are a mistake, he’d have to admit he was one of them.
And the Republicans try to say they are the party of choice for women.
@pecunium
Fixed. 😀
Tumors are also something God intended to happen. Why bother to get them removed? Pffft.
A smart lady once said that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Oh not the, “everything happens for a purpose” bullshit!
Following that logic when women get abortions it must be a part of god’s plan too as the plan encompasses *everything*. Of course, if that were true it would make that particular god a sadist but that’s neither here nor there.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/13
I wonder why the rest of the world thinks America is occupied by crazy people?
Oh, I forgot.
We are.
This thread. These politicians. How long things like this have been going on. I’m just going to go rub my head against a cheese grater or something.
Personally, I think it’s God’s will that I abort any fetuses that take up lodging in my uterus. I mean, he gave me gender dysphoria for a reason!
freitag: Hey, I’m a crazy person, and I’d NEVER say God wants women to get pregnant with rapebabies.
Is it some new fad for congressional candidates to say things that are completely ridiculous and despicable about pregnancies from rape that I’m missing?
Well, if God wants the baby that a rape victim is carrying to be born then he can always mystically transport it into the womb of someone who actually wants to be pregnant. He’s God, right? He can do anything.
Meanwhile, I personally do not want to be pregnant, so if I find myself becoming pregnant I’m having an abortion. If God doesn’t like it he’s free to rescue the festus via the aformentioned miracle of inter-womb transportation.
No, Cassandra, God only does what I want him to. Just like how the only Bible passages that exist are the ones that make me sound good and fit in with my prejudices. Religion is not a way of life, but something to use to confirm my bigotry and ignorance to myself.
So I guess that means that I don’t have to throw out the jeans that I’m currently wearing even though they’re made of mixed fibers? This God is so much more user-friendly than the one that my granny worships. I guess that’s because she’s not a smug, rich white guy.
No, I clearly said it’s what I* want, not you.
*is it possible to italicize on these comment fields?
Italicization: [i]word[/i] but replace square brackets with angle brackets
According to the Christian religion, I think the New Testament has pretty firmly established that if Yahweh wants a baby to happen he can make it happen without even raping anybody.