Steve King under fire for questioning if humanity would exist without 'rape and incest'

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), intending to make the case for a GOP policy that bans nearly all abortions, said the human population may not even exist if not for rape and incest

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GOP leaders, so far, have not commented, though King’s primary challenger was quick to condemn the remarks as “bizarre comments and behavior.” King’s Democratic challenger, J.D. Scholten, who lost to King by roughly 3 percentage points last fall, swiftly condemned the lawmaker’s “selfish, hateful ideology.”

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