Raw Story picked up on my post about the Republican National Coalition For Life’s appallingly large list of GOP candidates who support extreme anti-abortion positions (no exceptions for rape and incest). They counted the number of candidates who actually won their primaries and will stand for election, and came up with at least 78 GOP candidates who would force women to bear rapists’ babies.

The Republican National Coalition For Life, a political action committee formed by anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly, sends out questionnaires every election season to Republican candidates asking them to lay out their positions on abortion.

A list of responses from this year’s candidates indicate that 78 Senate and House candidates answered that they are “pro-life without discrimination,” meaning they don’t agree with any exceptions to a ban on abortion.

The list was flagged earlier this week by Charles Johnson at the Little Green Footballs blog. Johnson counted 112 candidates who hold that view of abortion, but a Raw Story count of the listed candidates found 78 who have won their primary and indicated they would make no exceptions to allow abortion.

For accuracy’s sake I went back to the site and counted again (twice), and they now list 80 GOP candidates who want to force women to give birth to rapists’ babies.