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Whole country. he also sponsored a federal version of bob mcdonnellsul ula sound bill. where they force them to get an ultrasound against their will and against doctors orders. paul ryans bill for doing that at the federal level had no exemptions for rape or incest. the furor in virginia over the forced ultrasounds bill is wi widely viewed as having derailed bob mcdonnells chances at this his chances of being this years republican nominee. he wasnt famous for much else, now hes governor ultrasou...

Helped cobble together a coalition that has won a lot more than its lost, a lot more than theyve lost. >> thats exactly my point. thats how their national majority came to be. so if you, you know, you have what todd akin said about legitimate rape but youve got a lot of people who agree with him on no exception and from what i was reading yesterday, there are a lot of people who shared the views he expressed out loud. you throw those people under the bus and offend those people, you have a probl...

Pregnancy. exceptions to the governments decisions based on you supposedly being raped, those are bs exceptions. because any woman who says she wants an abortion because her pregnancy is a result of a rape, by definition, shes lying about the rape thing. thats the reasoning here, right? thats why you need to come up with the cockamamy fake science theory if you want to talk about that as a policy. quietly over the last few years as the republican party has slipped its moorings post bush and chen...

Senate, the entire republican caucus voted for the fluke -- what was it called, the flake amendment? the blount amendment, excuse me, the blount amendment which allowed employers to sort of basically stop any kind of health care coverage that dealt with womens issues. it wasnt framed that way. the only one to vote against it was olympia snowe who is leaving the senate. so theres no there there for people who would stand with romney/ryan if they wanted to take the disingenuous position that they ...

>> there are many people in the party that have those exceptions. i will tell you were proud of the fact were pro-life. i will tell you that paul and mitt are pro-life. as far as the details of some of these things like exception of rape or life of the mother, these are not uncommon differences that candidates have and dont share some of the detail on those exceptions. as far as our platform is concerned, this is the platform of the republican party. its not the platform of rmitt romn romney. th...

The bassist for led zepplen. >> mitt romney was asked if akin should remove himself from the race. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i cant defend what he said. i cant defend him. >> do you think for the benefit of the party he should drop out. >> the thing that he should consider is whats in the best interest of the things he believes deeply. >> why didnt he just go further? >> because everybody is working behind the scenes now. finally. to put some discipline you know, nico...

Quietly ignored in national politics. noticed by the activists to whom they answer but not noticed by any of us. do you think theyll still take the paul ryan/todd akin position on rape victims in the national platform again this year or do you think now thats going to have to change? bob mcdonnell is the one who decides. joining us now is frank rich, writer at lark for new york magazine. mr. rich, great to see you. >> great to be here, rachel. >> its all in bob mcdonnells hands. >> as long as he...

Those folks were always around in anti-abortion politics and republican politics, but now, in this republican party, they have taken over. pa it was sarah palins position in 2008 as the republican party nominee that there should be no exceptions for rape and incest victims when the party would criminal liza bortion. in 2010, it was the position of a whole bunch of republican senate candidates. sharron angle as the republican u.s. senate candidate in nevada. she said the government forcing a rape...

In 1998, in arkansas again, the republican u.s. senate candidate running against blanche lincoln, a man named fay boozman was reported in a local arkansas paper to have told a crowd at a political gathering that there was no need for a rape victims exception to making abortion criminal because of something he described as gods little shield. he later denied using the exact phrase gods little shield, but he did explain further that based on anecdotal information he had collected as an opthalmolog...

Of a human life, you could oppose an exception for cases of rape and incest. you can believe no matter how the baby fetus or embryo is c conceived, that is a taking of the life. that is not the majority of the republican party. some people for some time, that is inconsistent. when congress member akin went over the line, it is to suggest there are different degrees of rape and not so real rape. women had anti-secret baby juice they could secrete. it is insuranensitive. >> ruth, the republicans h...