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NOW 24-HOUR NEWS 8 AT NOON
CONTINUES.
AND I THINK EVEN WHEN LIFE
BEGINS IN THAT HORRIBLE
SITUATION OF ***, THAT IT IS
SOMETHING THAT GOD INTENDED TO
HAPPEN.
THOSE COMMENTS LAST NIGHT
FROM REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE
RICHARD MOURDOCK HAVE PROVEN
HOTLY CONTROVERSIAL AND ARE
DRAWING REACTION FROM AROUND THE
STATE AND AROUND THE COUNTRY.
DEFENSIVE.
24-HOUR NEWS 8'S JIM SHELLA IS
LIVE WITH THE BREAKING STORY
OUTSIDE G.O.P. HEADQUARTERS,
WHERE MOURDOCK JUST SPOKE.
Reporter: YEAH, THIS COULD BE
A GAME CHANGER, LAUREN.
RICHARD MOURDOCK CANCELED ONE
CAMPAIGN STOP THIS MORNING.
THEN HE CAME HERE TO G.O.P.
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HIMSELF, AFTER GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATE MIKE PENCE CALLED ON
HIM PUBLICLY TO APOLOGIZE ABOUT
WHAT HE SAID LAST NIGHT.
IN ABOUT A 20-MINUTE NEWS
CONFERENCE THAT ENDED JUST
MINUTES AGO, MOURDOCK SAID THAT
HE THOUGHT HE WAS CLEAR ABOUT
WHAT HE SAID LAST NIGHT.
BUT OBVIOUSLY, HE WAS
MISUNDERSTOOD, AND HE APOLOGIZED
COMMENTS.
HE WAS RATHER EMOTIONAL, AS HE
EXPLAINED WHAT HE REALLY MEANT.
HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
PRECIOUS.
I BELIEVE THAT TO THE MARROW OF
MY BONES.
I BELIEVE THAT LIFE ITSELF IS
THE GREATEST GIFT THAT GOD CAN
GIVE US.
AND I KNOW, BECAUSE POLLING
SHOWS IT, AT LEAST 80% OF ALL
AMERICANS, AND I'M SURE AT LEAST
THAT MANY HOOSIERS, THINK THAT
GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL LIFE.
AND I STAND FIRMLY ON THAT
BELIEF.
POINT NUMBER TWO.
I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR VIOLENCE.
I ABHOR ANY KIND OF ***
VIOLENCE.
I ABHOR ***.
AND I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT AS
I STAND HERE THAT THE GOD THAT I
WORSHIP ABHORS VIOLENCE.
Reporter: MOURDOCK STOOD BY
HIS POSITION THAT HE IS OPPOSED
TO ABORTION, EVEN IN CASES OF
*** AND ***.
NOW, LAST NIGHT, MITT ROMNEY,
WHO HAS ENDORSED RICHARD
MOURDOCK, SAID HE DISAGREED WITH
THAT POSITION.
MOURDOCK SAID THIS MORNING
THERE'S BEEN NO CONVERSATION
WITH ROMNEY OR THE ROMNEY
CAMPAIGN.
ROMNEY ENDORSEMENT TV AD REMAINS
ON THE AIR.
MEANTIME, NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR
KELLY AYOTTE WAS TO BE HERE IN
INDIANAPOLIS TODAY, CAMPAIGNING
FOR RICHARD MOURDOCK.
SHE IS NOT COMING.
WE ARE TOLD THAT IS BY MUTUAL
AGREEMENT.
JOE DONNELLY, THE DEMOCRAT IN
THIS RACE, HAS CALLED A NEWS
CONFERENCE THIS AFTERNOON AT THE
JULIAN CENTER, WHICH IS A
SHELTER FOR WOMEN WHO ARE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,
AND ALSO JOHN GREGG, THE
DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR,
HAS CALLED A NEWS CONFERENCE.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO
CAPITALIZE ON THIS ANY WAY THEY
CAN.
JIM SHELLA, YOU WERE AT THE
NEWS CONFERENCE.
YOU ASKED THE FIRST QUESTION OF
MOURDOCK.
OUR VIEWERS GOT TO SEE THAT.
QUESTIONS CONTINUED.
WERE THERE ANY BOMBSHELLS OR
OTHER HEADLINES BEYOND HIS FIRST
COMMENTS THAT WE HEARD AND THE
QUESTION AND ANSWER YOU DREW OUT
OF HIM?
Reporter: THERE WERE NOT.
HE CONTINUES TO TRY TO EXPLAIN
HIMSELF, CONTINUES TO TRY TO
EXPLAIN HOW HE CAN FIND LIFE
THAT RESULTS FROM A *** TO BE
PRECIOUS.
AND YET, YOU KNOW, WHAT HE SAID
IN THE DEBATE, AS YOU KNOW, WAS
THAT GOD INTENDS FOR THAT LIFE
TO EXIST.
BUT HE IS ALSO TRYING TO SAY
***.
HE SAID THAT TO TRY TO SEPARATE
THE TWO IS A THEOLOGICAL
QUESTION.
ALL RIGHT, JIM SHELLA
REPORTING LIVE FOR US AT G.O.P.
HEADQUARTERS IN INDIANAPOLIS.
THIS IS A STORY THAT'S GOING TO
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP, OF COURSE,
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.
REACTION CONTINUES TO POUR IN
FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL
AISLE.
THAT'S, OF COURSE, AFTER
MOURDOCK'S COMMENTS.
A SPOKESPERSON FOR PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN SAYS MOURDOCK'S
COMMENTS ARE, QUOTE, OUTRAGEOUS
AND DOUGH MEANING TO WOMEN.
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL
MITT ROMNEY'S CAMPAIGN HAS SAID
IT DISAGREES WITH HIS COMMENTS
BUT HAS NOT PULLED ANY
MOURDOCK.
THEN MIKE PENCE, RUNNING FOR
INDIANA GOVERNOR, SAYS MOURDOCK
SHOULD APOLOGIZE.
WHICH YOU HEARD MOURDOCK HAS
SINCE APOLOGIZED.
SPECIFICALLY IF PEOPLE
MISCONSTRUED WHAT HE SAID,
IMPORTANT TO NOTE.
BUT THE HEAD OF THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE
IS STANDING BY MOURDOCK, SAYING
THE COMMENTS ARE BEING CONSTRUED
IN A, QUOTE, IRRESPONSIBLE AND
RIDICULOUS MANNER.
WASN'T TO KNOW WHAT YOU
THINK.
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