Raped and pregnant? it's a gift from God

[Prospero]

Well here are some more enlightened views from another new Republican. Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock who said on Tuesday that pregnancy that results from rape is “something that God intended to happen.”

He made the remarks during a debate with his Democrat rival. Mourdock defeated the longterm and moderate republican Senator Richard Lugar in a orimary earlier this year.

Romney has already distanced himself from this man (damage limitation being the latest flippy floppy ploy by the former Bain boss)

[tsadriana]

What an idiot.

[Willie Escalade]

Hence my current avatar.

[danthepoetman]

What if it's a gang rape, 30 or 40 bikers on a 15 year old girl, for instance. Is still God behind it?
What if the girl gets beaten and disfigured during rape. Is still God behind it?
What if she’s being tortured during hours or days? Is it still God?

If there was a God, he would certainly get us rid of such morons...

[Prospero]

Let's be fair to this man. He didn't say the rape itself was God's work... merely that any baby resulting from it was. A gift. Roughly given I guess. But God works in mysterious ways so the good book says.

[danthepoetman]

He said it’s something “God intended to happen”. Maybe he meant indeed the conception in itself, but to use again a totally hypothetical God to pressure someone who have suffered something as traumatic as rape to keep an infant that would constantly remind her of the events is disgusting.
You always wind up wandering why God seems so adamant to see us suffer and even, why he constantly seems so opposed to anything remotely fun… It makes quite a sorry Joe out of Him, inri… er!… I mean: imho.

[tsadriana]

Most of times babies haved from rape are unwanted or they are not loved just because brings them memorys of the rape.

[Prospero]

Absolutely true Adriana. After the war in Bosnia there were hundreds (or was it thousands) of babies born to women who were raped by Serbian fighters.

[danthepoetman]

Absolutely, Adriana! It’s terrible to pressure a woman into this, when both the child and the mother run the risk of being miserable forever after… and moreover, terrible to pressure her with the fear of an invisible, all mighty, vengeful being in the sky…

[danthepoetman]

Absolutely true Adriana. After the war in Bosnia there were hundreds (or was it thousands) of babies born to women who were raped by Serbian fighters.

You’re right: that was a tactic of war. You plague for a generation a whole nation…