George Faught was a Republican state representative from 2007-2012 when he made an unsuccessful run for Congress. Heading back to the state house, he served from 2014-2017. He lost Republican primaries in 2018 and 2020. He is most notable for opposing a rape or incest exemption to Oklahoma’s anti-abortion bill. When a opponent of the bill asked whether he was asserting rape was the will of god, he asserted a pregnancy that resulted from rape was “bringing beauty from ashes.”
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · Wednesday, March 22, 2017