Steve King: Without rape and incest, ‘Would there be any population of the world left?’

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During a Wednesday speech to the Westside Conservative Club in Iowa, Rep. Steve King suggested that populations across the globe were rooted in rape, pillaging, and incest, while espousing that no baby should be aborted because of the way they were conceived.

“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest?” the Iowa congressman asked. “Would there be any population of the world left if we did that? Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”

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