Sentences with phrase «pregnancy after rape»
Mourdock, running for Senate against Rep. Joe Donnelly (D), drew fire after he said even pregnancy after rape is «something that God intended to happen.»
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In Indiana, Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock lost his race against Democrat Joe Donnelly after saying last month that pregnancies resulting from rape are «something that God intended to happen.»
Men don't know what it means to be raped and to face the prospect of pregnancy as a result, a situation in which the morning after pill can prevent a pregnancy without causing an abortion.
Emergency Contraception: Methods that are used to prevent pregnancy after a woman has had sex without birth control, after the method she used has failed, or if a woman is raped.
a week after Mourdock's controversial comments about rape and pregnancy.
After the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012, party leaders had hoped to move beyond a reputation for offensive comments on women's issues, emblematized by Todd Akin, a Senate candidate in Missouri who posited that victims of «legitimate rape» were somehow able to prevent pregnancy.