if you re looking at this double digit gap continuing to yawning and continuing to grow, these are people who supported personhood amendments. they are trying to ken cuccinelli himself is actively involved in shutting down clinics that provide health care to women. i mean, it s happening every day. you don t have to look like rand paul did towards a distoppian reality. ken cuccinelli is already trying to do it in virginia. didn t they learn anything from the last election? they did not. you can see them doing i look at the news out of texas this week, look at virginia. every day brings a new list of regulations, restrictions. a draconian abortion restriction, trying to shut down clinics. i think that they think that this is a base strategy that there are people who really worried about women having reproductive freedom. and there was a more moderate potential choice in virginia for the republican party. bill bowling, lieutenant governor under bob mcdonnell, much more centrist
they re moving away from personhood amendments which are patently absurd and kind of strike people, strike most people as intuitively ridiculous. and the waterloo for that, of course, is when it lost in mississippi, of all places. it couldn t win in mississippi. late-term abortion is actually a better issue for them, right? most people intuitively know an embryo is not a human being, but most people also intuitively know that at 20 weeks or 22 weeks or 24 weeks, the fetus has some sort of value, even if not value that trumps the interest of the mother. and so this is an issue that is really uncomfortable and painful for a lot of people. and also in the aftermath of the 2007 case, gonzalez v. carhart, that allowed for a lot of new restrictions on abortion. it was the partial birth abortion case. there s a belief that the supreme court might be open to fundamentally reconsidering roe v. wade. right. that s the interesting strategic play here is let s get this before this court beca
antiabortion movement. they re moving away from personhood amendments which are patently absurd and kind of strike people, strike most people as intuitively ridiculous. and the waterloo for that, of course, is when it lost in mississippi, of all places. it couldn t win in mississippi. late-term abortion is actually a better issue for them, right? most people intuitively know an embryo is not a human being, but most people also intuitively know that at 20 weeks or 22 weeks or 24 weeks, the fetus has some sort of value, even if not value that trumps the interest of the mother. and so this is an issue that is really uncomfortable and painful for a lot of people. and also in the aftermath of the 2007 case, gonzalez v. carhart, that allowed for a lot of new restrictions on abortion. it was the partial birth abortion case. there s a belief that the supreme court might be open to fundamentally reconsidering roe v. wade. right. that s the interesting strategic play here is let s get this
country, grassroots level, done a lot of incredible reporting. explain to me through that prism why the republican party is doing this. i am genuinely confused. i think there are two different things. i mean, first of all, you know, there are a huge number of republican officeholders who got into office specifically because they want to ban abortion. it shouldn t be surprising that that s what they re doing even if the politics of it seem wacky and counterproductive to us. they ran on it, they promised this and believe in it so this is what they re doing it. their base is demanding it, response to the kermit gosnell trial. there s actually a kind of growing pragmatism in the antiabortion movement. they re moving away from personhood amendments which are patently absurd and kind of strike people, strike most people as intuitively ridiculous. and the waterloo for that, of course, is when it lost in mississippi, of all places. it couldn t win in mississippi. late-term abortion i
reported at cpac when they were looking for young republicans who opposed gay marriage they couldn t find it. is this opposition just ageing out and is this going to be a problem for republicans? you know, i think it s challenging. when governor rendell was talking about the life issue. i would invite him for the march for life in washington. there are thousands of young people committed to the pro life cause. there are millions who don t want things crazy like personhood amendments. they show up to washington to support pro life. gay marriage issue is different. it does cut more with age and the younger you are the less you tend to be supportive of traditional marriage and the more you don t care about gay marriage. i don t know that they support gay marriage they just don t care. they don t think the government should be part of the discussion. it s a challenge for us as a party in support of traditional marriage. chip saltsman and former governor ed rendell. great talking to