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An effort in Indiana to pass an abortion ban with exceptions has exposed rifts among conservatives on how to legislate in a post-Roe world.

Understands the connection and intersection of race, gender, and the law and who have experienced being a black woman in this country, understand constitutional principles, the history of the constitution as it pertains to black women, to black people, and to women generally, who may bring some experiences with regard to criminal law and the impacts of race in criminal law, and so this is a moment in which we should all be rejoicing, because we are getting to a time when the supreme court will r...

Issue? >> reporter: you know, again, i guess it depends on your real definition of key. but by and large looking at the top three, romney, paul and santorum. probably the strictest on abortion issues is rick santorum who believes there should be no abortions except in the case of the mothers life being in jeopardy. he also believes that there ought to be a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. but if you look at both paul and romney, while both are anti-abortion, paul saying only should the...

we begin with rick santorum. momentum is with the pennsylvania senator and he is sticking to his conservative guns. candidate santorum this afternoon. >> i would suggest if you look at the history of republican nominees, that moderate voters, moderate candidates who were there to appeal to more moderates ended up losing. >> but is that tough enough? listen to what congressman ron paul had to say about santorum earlier to cnns dana bash. >> why would not he be a good republican nominee?...