“I just — I struggle with it myself for a long time but I came to realize that life is that gift from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen.”
He said exactly that. Whether he meant it in that context or not is another story, but that’s what he said. If he meant it that way, he’s dead wrong.
God works all things together for good. He did NOT intend for the baby to be conceived out of rape. Allow it yes, but intend it no. That was not His will. But He will then work that for good, if we allow him to do so. THAT he does intend.
“when life begins”...you are being thick here.