is not the right candidate for women s health or women s rights? is it just a look back over his past posts, his past stances on this and the fact that he will flip? well, that s just it. you can t trust him. at one point, you know, he argued that he was pro-choice and in the next, he s gone so extremely far to the right, both he and ryan. we re talking about a man that supports personhood amendments in this country. this is a guy that said he would defund family planning and planned parenthood. he said he would overturn a woman s right to abortion care in this country. that is so outside the mainstream and so extreme that most americans i think reject and don t trust that what he says and what he will do are two different things. my bottom line is, i don t believe you can trust mitt romney and our president, president barack obama, has stood with us as women. are mitt romney s politics more damaging to women or paul ryan s? they re the same team.
and the sanctity of human life from the perspective of one who herself, is the result of a rape. rebecca joins me now. rubecky is an antiabortion activist. she speaks around the country promoting bans on abortion, using her stowe of conception as a linchpin. mike huckabee was campaigning throughout the country last year with rebecca. on her website, she writes, i strongly urge everyone to support personhood amendments. mike huckabee was a key note speaker last year. all of this effort is in aid of defining a person from the moment of conception which would prevent abortions in virtually all cases ever. this is a major policy agenda of huckabees that gives money to candidates and causes aligned with the movement. one of the candidates, hey, todd akin. mike huckabee, the runner up for
sarah palin. there s been absolutely no bump at all in any of the national polling or state-based polling for mitt romney as a consequence of selecting paul ryan, and in states like nevada, florida, pennsylvania, we re seeing that older voters are profoundly concerned about the medicare reductions that would result in vice president ryan. so we ll take that matchup any day of the week. i have to say, it s really easy to get up on a stage, puff out your chest and talk about guns and god and of course, we all know that barack obama is a devoutly spiritual person who cares about his country and his family and the need to protect the second amendment. right now, voters have to be concerned about the fact that that vice presidential nominee has been in close collaboration with people like congressman akin who are passing personhood amendments, trying to delineate between forced rape and other kinds of rape and who now find themselves trying to defend the
i wouldn t actually do that. but the broader point here, as joy was making, this is the default position of the republican party right now. and let s just remind people, when we re talking about personhood amendments, like what was on the ballot in mississippi and was defeated han diddly, that is giving the rights of a person to a fertilized egg, and it will not surprise you to learn that while it is mainstream public opinion within the republican house caucus, it is a fringe belief that that should happen within the american public. and there s a broader pattern here, where republicans cannot actually talk about where they stand. not just on personhood, not just on forcible rape, but when you look at something like medicare vouchers, privatizing social security, raising taxes on the poor to finance another tax cut for the rich. these are positions that republicans cannot actually talk about, because the american people finds it wildly insane and unpopular, okay?
them. so that strategist in me wants to urge democrats to contribute to his campaign. i wouldn t actually do that. but the broader point here, as joy was making, this is the default position of the republican party right now. and let s just remind people, when we re talking about personhood amendments, like what was on the ballot in mississippi and was defeated han diddly, that is giving the rights of a person to a fertilized egg, and it will not surprise you to learn that while it is mainstream public opinion within the republican house caucus, it is a fringe belief that that should happen within the american public. and there s a broader pattern here, where republicans cannot actually talk about where they stand. not just on personhood, not just on forcible rape, but when you look at something like medicare vouchers, privatizing social security, raising taxes on the poor to finance another tax cut for the rich. these are positions that republicans cannot actually talk about, because