Nevada women alarmed by Republican’s rape remarks

US: Shanleigh Brethauer was eager to support Mitt Romney at a Nevada rally, but when she heard of recent comments by a fellow Republican on pregnancy and rape, she let out a worried “Oh wow.” The 19-year-old coffeeshop barista was among several women supporters at Romney’s event Wednesday in the gaming city of Reno who expressed revulsion over US Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s controversial gaffe.

The anti-abortion conservative from Indiana found himself -- and by extension his fellow Republican Romney, who backs him for the Senate -- in hot water when he said in a debate that “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape... it is something that God intended to happen.” Brethauer, who made the 45-minute drive from Carson City to Reno to see Romney, said that while she is determined to give Romney her first-ever presidential vote on November 6, the outrage over Mourdock is valid.

AFP