Sharron Angle Doubles Down

[Trigger warning for sexual assault.]

You may recall that Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle recently explained she holds the position that abortion should be illegal even even in cases of rape and/or incest because "God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives."

Given the opportunity by a conservative radio show to, well, presumably backpedal from the assertion that God subcontracts rapists to facilitate parts of his "plan," Angle instead doubled-down:
Question: What do you say then to a young girl...when a young girl is raped by her father, let's say, and she is pregnant. How do you explain this to her in terms of wanting her to go through the process of having the baby?

Angle: I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at-risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.
Being raped and impregnated by your father = Lemon.

Carrying that pregnancy to term and birthing your own half-sibling at age 15 = Lemonade.

Got it.

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