Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock made a controversial comment regarding rape and pregnancy during a debate Tuesday night's debate, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Mourdock said that he did not support abortion regardless if the victim was raped.
"Life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something God intended to happen," he said.
The video quickly became viral stirring controversy. Many tie the remark to other Republicans, especially Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Andrea Saul, Romney's campaign spokesperson, told the Boston Herald that he does not support Mourdock's remarks but continues to support his Indiana Senate race. The campaign has not asked Mourdock to discontinue television ads featuring Romney.
Some Republicans have separated themselves from the controversial candidate.
Rep. Mike Pence, who once pushed to defund Planned Parenthood, is now running for Indiana governor and urges Mourdock to apologize, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Murdock said that his words were twisted.
"Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick," he told The Wall Street Journal.
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FBI caught a Bangladeshi man who once considered targeting President Barack Obama but resolved to attack a Federal Reserve Bank in New York, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
An anonymous official said that the man never got past the discussion stage. In fact, the bomb was phony, set up as a part of a sting operation. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis did however admire Osama Bin Laden and martyrdom.
Nafis had considered executing his attack at the New York Stock Exchange. He eventually settled on the Federal Reserve Bank for "operational reasons," according to a criminal complaint. Nafis knew civilians, including women and children, would be harmed.
"My son can't do it," Nafis' father, Quazi Ahsanullah, told Associated Press. "He was gentle and devoted to his studies," referring to Nafis' time at North South Dhaka Bangladesh.
The Huffington Post reported that Nafis arrived in the U.S. in January on a student visa. He studied for one semester at Southeast Missouri State University.
"I spent all my savings to send him to America," Ahsanullah told the Associated Press.
Nafis was ordered without bail in Federal Court Wednesday on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Al-Quaida, the Huffington Post reported.
Two Americans win the Nobel economics Prize for economics, this Monday, for their work on match-making.
Professors Lloyd Shapley and Alvin E. Roth discovered a way to match men and women, doctors and hospitals, as well as students and schools. Shapley created formulas to maximize supply and demand where money is not involved while Roth contributed to applying real life issues to the mathematical equations, The Washington Post reported.
Shapley, of UCLA, first began working on his match-making theory in the 1960's when he and the late David Gale looked at how to match 10 women and 10 men in stable marriages, according to The Star Tribune. To ensure stability, both partners had to feel they got the most attractive possible match.
Though this theory was never tested with real couples, Roth used this same theory years later to enhance the National Resident Matching Program, pairing hospitals and doctors as well as making sure no student is forced to go to a school they did not want to in the New York Public School District, The Star Tribune reported.
According to The Washington Post, The field of matching deals with issues of life and death as well. Research is currently underway that will help match those in need of a kidney transplant to donors.
"I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have," Roth told Forbes Magazine in 2010.
