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"I really believe this bill is where it needs to be. Its in a good place," said state Rep. Wendy McNamara, R-Evansville, a LaPorte native and sponsor of the legislation.

State Rep. Wendy McNamara, R-Evansville, chairwoman of the House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code, said the changes are "a thoughtful way forward" that "shows compassion for mothers and babies."

"Exceptions equal death for unborn, innocent children," said state Sen. Mike Young, R-Indianapolis.

"Politicians are wading into an issue they are not smart enough to understand outside of their Washington talking points," said Ali Brown, a Portage native and Democratic city leader in

Justices Rajiv Shakdher observed that the offence of rape and injury caused remains the same, irrespective of who the offender is. 'What may make, or mar, a marriage, cannot be predicted by us,' Justice C. Hari Shankar said.

Confrontational in tangible ways than that. look, i think the biden administration had no choice but to do this because the supreme court didnt take it up when it could have taken it up. so theres a decision coming up on this, and i think, you know, there was also a need for the biden administration to do this because really so many people in texas and across the nation watching this are in distress. look, the approval ratings on abortion have changed not to the same level that marriage equality...

For rape and incest. thats the only problem with the alabama law. all these other bans are fine. is whats going on right now an effort to redefine what counts as radical as if any other abortion ban wouldnt be radical provided it had a rape exception? >> that seems what is president trump is trying to do but he is going to fail at it because the whole reason these unprecedented number of extreme bans are being introduced is because of trump and kavanaugh, because these anti-womens health politic...

Expectation that only the most radical andra conian bans should fail? weve seen president trump and other republican anti-abortion rights politicians say, im pro-life. im against abortion. but there has to be exceptions for rape and incest. thats the only problem with the alabama law. all these other bans are fine. is whats going on right now an effort to redefine what counts as radical as if any other abortion ban wouldnt be radical provided it had a rape exception? >> that seems what is presid...

>> i think a lot of it -- the tone and tenor of the conversation, particularly last year when you heard in state legislatures people saying things like women would use if we made a rape exception, they would use it as a loophole. just talking about a woman, a human being in that way, i think thats part what have they m miscalculated. and the final question i wanted to ask is i think part of what were seeing is again this tied if for women as part of fundamental freedom, fundamental human rights ...

Trying to carve out very narrow exceptions, if any at all. actually, women have a legal right to abortion and should not need to justify that decision. also, lets remember that the rape exception does not work. there were 32,000 pregnancies in 2010 that resulted from sexual assault. there were 9,000 terminations and medicaid only paid for 331 of them. so there is a rape exception right now, in which case women who need to have support for their abortion funding or supposed to get it through medi...