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This Republican Defended Anti-Abortion Bill by Saying God Uses Rape and Incest Pregnancies to Bring 'Beauty From Ashes'

Democrats challenged Rep George Faught's controversial assertions.

During a debate at the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Republican lawmakers defended an anti-abortion bill by asserting that pregnancies resulting from rape or incest could be part of God’s will.  

The bill put forth by Rep. George Faught (R-OK) would ban abortion due to genetic abnormalities or Down syndrome. The bill makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. 

Democratic representatives challenged Faught’s claim that rape could happen at the will of God.

“Is rape the will of God?” asked Rep. Cory Williams. 

“If you read the Bible, there’s actually a couple circumstances where that happened and the Lord uses all circumstances,” Faught replied. “I mean, you can go down that path, but it’s a reality, unfortunately.”

Faught tried to maneuver around the firm statement that rape occurs at God's will. However, Williams pressed harder.

“You won’t make any exceptions for rape, you won’t make any exceptions for incest in this and you are proffering divine intervention as the reason why you won’t do that,” Williams said. “I think it is very important. This body wants to know, myself personally, whether you believe rape and incest are actually the will of God.”

Faught replied:

“It’s a great question to ask, and, obviously if it happens in someone’s life, it may not be the best thing that ever happened. But, so you’re saying that God is not sovereign with every activity that happens in someone’s life and can’t use anything and everything in someone’s life, and I disagree with that.”

  • Faught's comments were met with relentless anger on Twitter

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