this ground to conservatives. melissa harris-lacewell. somebody who is very smart who i always enjoy talking to. really appreciate it. coming up on countdown, keith s exclusive interview with sharron angle. so on exclusive sharron angle doesn t know about. we bid aduieu to the politician we have lovingly known as the human seive. it was presenting the cadillac summer s best sales event. a fantastic opportunity to get a great offer
part of it is there is a strong position for those who are against it on these moral or ethical grounds. by the way, i respect that position, i just don t think it should be a matter of law. i think individuals have a right to hold that opinion. precisely the kind of government we have is that those positions should be protected as well as the right to choose for those who don t believe that the termination of a pregnancy constitutes murder. part of it is, it s hard to have the conversation. because there s not a lot of common ground. the other piece of it is, democrats just haven t done a very good job about redefining ethical questions and normative questions from a progressive agenda perspective. they continue to kind of cede this ground to conservatives. it s still more of the same work we ve been needing to do for a decade. melissa harris-lacewell. somebody who is very smart who i always enjoy talking to.
so why have we heard so little about it from these republicans who have such strong views on abortion or from their democratic opponents? joining us is princeton professor, and msnbc contributor, melissa harris- lacewell. thanks for joining us. oh, of course, any time. so what would be the consequences of having a whole bunch of new sitting senators elected to the u.s. senate who were opposed to abortion not just in all regular cases but also in cases in which the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest? i think we ve already seen the consequences of having a significant portion of even one party, even the party out of power, with a very strong anti-reproductive choice agenda. we saw it, for example, in the health care fight, where somehow abortion became the central issue in a comprehensive health care reform bill. the central issue became controlling women s right to choose. controlling women s fertility. not giving women the ability to
but they are a voice that we have to continue to take seriously because they represent some portion of the american public that does have extreme anxiety about the 2008 election results. right now it s just a series of meetings of people wearing hats. melissa harris lacewell, thank you kindly. thanks. the reverse of not in my backyard. russell simmons on building a mosque near ground zero, near his home ahead. she felt lost. until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation.
melissa harris lacewell on a bad night for the tpers and a mosque two blocks from ground zero. russell simmons joins us. ed shultz also joins us from washington and my special comment on prop 8. it combines eh bayer aspirin to treat pain it combines eh plus an alertness aid to help you get off to a running start. try bayer am the morning pain reliever.