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Distinguish it from nonforceable rape, the kind of rape women secretly want and like? republicans upon taking control of the house in their third bill, sought to redefine rape because the old definition of rape apparently included too many things that women wanted to be protected from when we all know they were the kind of rape that are really no big deal. paul ryan, the republican vice presidential nominee, was an original cosponsor of the bill to redefine rape. to make it harder on rape victim...

Counted on that being kind of 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 large for new york magazine and former columnist for the "new york times." it is great it see you. thank yo...

Platform. they will have the language in the platform that bans abortion in the case of rape. you hope they have todd akin to kick around in the race. >> that bill would redefine rape. they call it forceable rape. i wonder, shira, what is the likelihood this is going to stick or hurt paul ryan? >> i dont know it will hurt paul ryan that much in the long term. a lot of republican members signed on to the bill you just mentioned. >> only one is running for vice president. >> that is absolutely a g...

Believes that rape and incest victims should be forced by the state to give birth against their will. >> in new hampshire, in georgia, in indiana, in virginia, in idaho, south carolina, in iowa, republicans in all of those states in the past couple years have moved to overtly go after rape victims and incest victims and anti-abortion laws removing protections they used to have in law. in the house of representatives, federally, when republicans voted on a new abortion ban for washington, d.c. re...

Ticket? now that todd akin has become the latest republican politician to articulate the pseudo scientific thinking behind this laund thinking strand of republican politics, now that theres a full scale freakout about his viability and his insanely out there politics on the issue and how the republican party can afford to keep a guy like that on the ballot in that important race, once again, you have to ask why the freakout about todd akin when the republican party has picked somebody with the e...

Somehow what todd akin said is tied back to this bill. i keep hearing it around the table. if todd akin brought up in bill on the interview, he would still be in the race and we would not be talking about him. this is a story not because -- let me finish. this is a story that gained traction not because of this bill that paul ryan co-sponsored, this is a story that gained traction because we saw the ignorance of a man just in clear view talking about the biology of women that somehow magically s...

Version of bob mcdonnells ultra sound bill. in which the government forces women to have a medically unnecessary ultrasound against their will and potentially 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 widely viewed as having derailed virginia governor bob mcdonnells chances at being thpg years vice presidential nominee. honestly, i think thats because he got famous fo...

Many things that women wanted to be protected from when we all know they were the kind of rape that are really no big deal. paul ryan, the republican vice presidential nominee, was an original cosponsor of the bill to redefine rape. to make it harder on rape victims who wanted to get an abortion. the bill eventually dropped the redefining rape language, but paul ryan was a sponsor of the bill while the original language was still in there. he was also a sponsor of the federal version of the pers...

Hes staying in the race for that missouri senate seat. at leests, least hes trying to. mitt romney as a presidential candidate said he would have supported a personhood constitutional amendment at the state level. he told mike huckabee when mike huckabee asked if he would support something like that, he told mike huckabee, absolutely. mr. romney then picked the national personhood guy for his vice president. a congressman who sponsored bills to redefine rape and force women to have medically unn...

Unnecessary ultrasound against their will and potentially 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 widely viewed as having derailed virginia governor bob mcdonnells chances at being thpg years vice presidential nominee. honestly, i think thats because he got famous for it. he wasnt famous for much else, now hes governor ultrasound. of course he cant be the vice presi...