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>> i am sure that my parents were the exception. >> never ever regretted it, not at 4:00 a.m. >> these are obviously in some cases incredibly complicated issues, and it is the most complicat complicated, most personal issues that i feel most uncomfortable leaving to politicians. so, you know, if we have got a tough call here and the choice is between a woman who is pregnant and whoever she might want to talk to about it on one hand and say newt gingrich on the other, well, i will leave it with t...

Reasons, but access has been increasingly restricted because of the violence against health care providers and the legislation aimed at curtailing the late-term abortions. since the murder of dr. joe tiller who was assassinated by anti-abortion activists, there are fewer doctors willing to perform abortions. and now at the sundance festival there is a new documentary about this. this is from that documentary. >> at times i struggle and at times i dont, but i always come back to the woman. >> our...

And bob herbert who is senior fellow at demos, and access is what we should be fighting to the. >> yes. what people dont know after the roe v. wade, hyde amendment was passed a and that prevented medicaid from covering abortion, and what the abortion funds do nationwide and there are over 100 funds and what they do is to he heldp women pay for their abortions, and so that is what abortion funds do, and that what we are here the day every day and day in, day out, and whatever people feel about ab...

Institute, more than 87% of the counties lack abortion provider. the national network of abortion funds reports that every year 200,000 women need help paying for abortions in part because nearly half of american women who seek pregnancy termination live below the federal povrly line and this lack of access can be deadly for women. before roe v. wade, complications of abortion were the leading cause of death for women of child-bearing age and especially true of women of color. so as this access ...

Hezbollah drone. israeli jets scramble to do intercept an unmanned drone. they blew it up. this is from the israeli defense force and shows the drone in israeli air space. they shot it down over the desert. bottom line, message sent. its reported israel deployed missiles as they investigate who was behind the drone. >> gretchen: florida republicans outraged after a school district letting pro-obama group hold drives to register students to vote. this while they denied the romney campaign similar...

What discriminatory statement, and trying to put a bar between a woman and her access to health care. and as you mentioned, equal access, thats whats key. and its very insulting that the republicans would think that women cannot differentiate between two candidates. >> well, does the romney camp right now, charnell, have a credibility problem with women? hes got nikki haley saying that women dont care about contraception. how does that play? will it be a game changer, in any way, shape, or form?...

And as you mentioned, equal access, thats whats key. and its very insulting that the republicans would think that women cannot differentiate between two candidates. >> well, does the romney camp right now, charnell, have a credibility problem with women? hes got nikki haley saying that women dont care about contraception. how does that play? will it be a game changer, in any way, shape, or form? >> i think, absolutely. and its really ironic that they put that out there and say that women dont ca...

Medical -- >> affordable health care. >> equal access. and from his point of view, access to contuldn contracepti right that everybody is entitled to it. if he was doing it based on politics, he wouldnt have done it this way. >> unless you have a horrible blind spot on how conservative catholics think. >> its not just conservative catholics, catholics have been voting across the spectrum the last decade. this could be a unifying issue. as one catholic just wrote, 70% of the catholic churches ove...

Information that anthony weiner has been on our air as a proponent of the bill saying, maybe we need to see if we can do it better in new york city. >> just shows that the critics of the bill that said it was authoritarian, fascist, socialist, got it wrong. the bill sets forth a series of principles -- fairness, equal access, but allows for waivers if local communities with their market conditions can figure out ways to accomplish those things better and more efficiently. thats the bill working ...

To, it went up and it went up because we ensured that students would know that the military recruiters were coming to our campus, because i talked about how important military service was, because our veterans organization and the veterans on campus did an absolutely terrific job, a terrific service to their fellow students in talking to them about the honor of military service. >> well, while -- i would just say, while my time is running down, i am just a little taken aback by the tone of your ...