Mourdock rape comment adds to election-year furor over social issues

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An Indiana GOP Senate candidate’s assertion that pregnancy resulting from rape is “something God intended to happen” ignited a controversy that spilled into the presidential race Wednesday as Democrats renewed the charge that Republicans are waging a “war on women.”

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