Mourdock Comments on Abortion, Rape Leave Critics Howling Mad
Comments Reflect Views of Other Republicans, Pundits

(Indianapolis, IN) — Indiana Republican Senate nominee Richard Mourdock (R-IN) decided to do his best Todd Akin (R-MO) impression during a debate on October 23.

On August 19, Akin said during an interview: "First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Moudock took that subject one step further, claiming that God actually condones rape: "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen …"

These comments would not be so shocking if they didn't represent a repeated pattern of what Republican right-wing rule will potentially look like in 2013.

Early in 2012, conservative talk show host and Diarrhea of the Mouth sufferer Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" and said: "She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception."

When Fluke addressed the Democratic National Convention in September, conservative Republican Morlock Ann Coulter called Fluke's address "a live abortion" and joked that Fluke had been impregnanted by President Bill Clinton backstage.