Though it's likely you're already suffering from Republican rape outrage fatigue, there's one extremely late entry into this election's collection of misogynistic quips. At a fund-raiser on Sunday, a liberal activist asked Washington Congressional candidate John Koster if there's any case in which he'd support abortion. In an audio recording posted online, Koster says, "When a mother's life is in danger, I'm not going to make that decision," — though there are other instances in which he is comfortable making that call. "Incest is so rare, I mean, it's so rare," says Koster, saying that as for the "rape thing," he knows one rape survivor who had her child, put it up for adoption, and is now pro-life. He adds, "But on the rape thing, it's like, how does putting more violence onto a woman's body and taking the life of an innocent child that's the consequence of this crime, how does that make it better? You know what I mean?"
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