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Top GOP Senator Mitch McConnell Defends Mourdock’s ‘Gift From God’ Statement | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the latest senior Republican defending Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s statement that forced pregnancy from rape is a “gift from God.” McConnell released a statement charging that opponents “make hay out of every comment,” and that “sharing the view of millions of Americans that life begins at conception is Richard’s deeply held personal belief that shouldn’t be misconstrued by partisans to imply something it does not.” Top Republicans like Mitt Romney and the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair have stood by Mourdock, despite his extreme position that it should be illegal for raped women to have an abortion.
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