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Petition: Tell Republican Senate candidate Richard Mour... - 10/24/2012 10:12:33 AM

kalikshama

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no politician should tell women that any part of being raped is a gift from God.

Sign the petition: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/richard_mourdock/

No part of rape is "a gift from God."

Last night a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist's baby to term because their pregnancy -- a result of rape -- is a "gift from God."1

Tell Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock: Rape is a heinous act of violence, and no politician should tell women that any part of being raped is a gift from God.

Richard Mourdock is a Tea Party Republican who defeated incumbent Republican Senator Richard Lugar in a surprise upset in Indiana's primary election for U.S. Senate. He is currently in a dead heat with the Democratic challenger -- the latest polls are within the margin of error.2

If enough of us speak out we can turn Mourdock's remark into a "Todd Akin" moment and ensure that Indiana and the rest of the nation learns just how extreme he is when it comes to women.

Mourdock's exact words -- in the debate with his Democratic opponent -- were:

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.

Tell Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock: Rape is a heinous act of violence, and no politician should tell women that any part of being raped is a gift from God.

Mourdock is a staunch believer that abortion should be illegal even for victims of rape and incest. But even for an anti-abortion Tea Party Republican claiming that any part of of being raped is for the woman a "gift from God" is appalling.

Make no mistake: Tea Party Republicans like Mourdock will stop at nothing to send women back to the Stone Age. And if he wins election in Indiana, he will put Republicans one seat closer to control of the Senate. And that could mean that extreme anti-woman legislation passed readily in the House -- defunding Planned Parenthood, redefining rape, blocking access to birth control -- would now have a shot at passing the Senate.

Rape is rape. And it is not acceptable for a Republican politician campaigning for one of the highest offices in our government to tell women that if they get pregnant as a result of rape, that it's a "gift from God."

1. "GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Rape Pregnancies A 'Gift From God'", The Hill, Oct. 23, 2012.
2. "Donnelly internal poll shows narrow lead over Mourdock", The Hill, Oct. 23, 2012.

Sign the petition: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/richard_mourdock/

< Message edited by kalikshama -- 10/24/2012 10:15:32 AM >

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