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They prefer to talk about it in the work police as a distinctive issue. nothing to do with whether or not women can control their own bodies. right now the democrats are making the argument the two cannot be separated. the that argument has been resonating with women. thats part of the reason he may not want to go on "meet the press" and not talk about abortion. he has a clear record on the issue. paul opposes abortion without exception. not cases of rape, incest or the health of the expectant m...

Complex. its textured. it isnt censored. when you ask questions in different ways you get different responses. and theres a constant battle on both sides. but when the rubber hits the road, which is like this thing is on the ballot, the data is clear in that respect. >> well, it depends what the issues are. if the issue is sex election in an abortion -- it may not. but there are laws out there or on the books. if there are issues about parental notification, where do they go? im not so sure. >> ...

Roles or not. its clear one does not stand for that. and theres dissent whether they want to be for traditional gender roles or not. >> i agree. youre describing the positions of what i see as fairly extreme positions. and you know, they do have a big following. i dont deny that. but i think theres a mistake in assuming that theres this black and white approach to abortion. maybe not contraception. i mean abortion. lets take abortion. so if you look at the polls, i mean, women -- its not clear t...

Kind of parody. when you take all that into account. >> right. and the taking into account gets me precisely at this point. theres this argument that you need to bracket out -- yes, what the gop wants to say, irene is yes, we are a pro-life party. resolutely pro-life. we are aggressively pro life. we are aggressively anti-abortion. were constantly waging this battle. but that has nothing to do with any war on women. these are separable things. you can be for womens equality and against reproduct...

>> right. and the taking into account gets me precisely at this point. theres this argument that you need to bracket out -- yes, what the gop wants to say, irene is yes, we are a pro-life party. resolutely pro-life. we are aggressively pro life. we are aggressively anti-abortion. were constantly waging this battle. but that has nothing to do with any war on women. these are separable things. you can be for womens equality and against reproductive choice. thats the argument theyre trying to make....

And theres dissent whether they want to be for traditional gender roles or not. >> i agree. youre describing the positions of what i see as fairly extreme positions. and you know, they do have a big following. i dont deny that. but i think theres a mistake in assuming that theres this black and white approach to abortion. maybe not contraception. i mean abortion. lets take abortion. so if you look at the polls, i mean, women -- its not clear that a war against women would mean -- >> but thats a ...

Theres this argument that you need to bracket out -- yes, what the gop wants to say, irene is yes, we are a pro-life party. resolutely pro-life. we are aggressively pro life. we are aggressively anti-abortion. were constantly waging this battle. but that has nothing to do with any war on women. these are separable things. you can be for womens equality and against reproductive choice. thats the argument theyre trying to make. why is that not a legitimate argument? >> well, theyre trying to go fu...

When it comes down to politicians talking in an extreme ways about peoples body, that sees abortion as an issue about sex and controlling women, thats when women start to go for the candidate not interested in doing that. >> and particularly in the case of virginia, unmarried women versus married women. married women, theres not a huge partisan gender gap between voters. theres a massive gap. >> i have to jump in. i feel like theres a basic misunderstanding about abortions, and im not speaking f...

And so heres what is interesting. public opinion on abortion is con plex. its textured. it isnt censored. when you ask questions in different ways you get different responses. and theres a constant battle on both sides. but when the rubber hits the road, which is like this thing is on the ballot, the data is clear in that respect. >> well, it depends what the issues are. if the issue is sex election in an abortion -- it may not. but there are laws out there or on the books. if there are issues a...

Abortion. they dont get married. they make choices that dont fit the republican view. rand paul, the women in his family that are doing well, thats wonderful. right. but -- i think we all stipulated at the table. >> theyre still underrepresented in leadership role ls. even white upper middle class women whose dads are congressman are underrepresented in leadership roles. theyre underrepresented in congress and ultimately its not the person bill that he said would restrict birth control. so were ...