NEW ALBANY, Indiana (WordNews.org) Oct. 25, 2012 – Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, is received support from pro-lifers and presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Mourdouck created a firestorm when he said during a debate with his Democratic rival Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andrew Horning that he opposed abortion even in the case of rape.

“I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen,” he said.

Mourdock has since apologized for the wording, but not before it became a part of the presidential campaign.

“This is a reminder that a Republican Congress working with a Republican president Mitt Romney would (feel) that women should not be able to make choices about their own health care,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

But pro-lifers are backing Mourdock fervently.

“If you haven’t heard already, Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, is being viciously attacked by his Democratic opponent and the pro-abortion, mainstream media — and he needs our help right now,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List in an email blast to supporters. “You see, Richard Mourdock had the courage to say at a debate last night that all unborn children — no matter what the circumstance — are gifts from God.

SBA List is launching what its calling a counter attack “exposing the Joe Donnelly record of betrayal of unborn children.”

Joshua Mercer, executive director of the CatholicVote.org Candidate Fund, also voiced support for Mourdock.

“Richard Mourdock is right: Rape is horrible. It is a deplorable evil and all efforts must be made to bring the criminal to justice. Victims should always be treated the utmost love and compassion,” he said.”A child conceived in rape still deserves legal protections like all children. No child should be punished for the crime of her father. Joe Donnelly is trying to twist Richard Mourdock’s words to make it sound like Mourdock claimed God intended rape to happen. Joe Donnelly is practicing politics at its absolute worst.”

Eric J. Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, commended Mourdock “for upholding the humanity of children conceived in rape.”

“God’s words to the prophet Jeremiah belong to these children, too, as they do to all of us: ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you,'” said Scheidler. “Of course God knows and loves these children, innocently conceived in violence.”

Not all evangelicals gave Mourdock their support.

Richard Lints, dean at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. said Mourdocks comments were offensive, in a story the appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.

“The clumsiness is [to] so align God with evil that God becomes a horrific figure,” he told the Monitor. “It’s contrary to anything you read in scripture, and it removes the human responsibility.”