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Information to marketers. listen to one privacy expert at a senate hearing on this very issue. >> the data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have shame. it will sell any information about any person, regardless of sensitivity, for 7.9 cents a name. which is the price of a list of rape sufferers which was recently sold. >> rape sufferers. with me now, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, sunny hostin, and zain asher. we heard the woman there. rape vict...

Want to essentially require michigan women to plan ahead and financially invest in health care coverage for potentially having their bodies violated and assaulted. >> that was michigan senate minority leader, gretchen whitner, who revealed publicly yesterday that she, herself, is a survivor of rape. it happened two decades ago. the initiative she was speaking out against effectively bans private insurance companies from covering abortion as part of their standard health care plans. which means y...

Want to essentially require michigan women to plan ahead and financially invest in health care coverage for potentially having their bodies violated and assaulted. >> that was michigan senate minority leader, gretchen whitner, who revealed publicly yesterday that she, herself, is a survivor of rape. it happened two decades ago. the initiative she was speaking out against effectively bans private insurance companies from coveri ining abortion as part o their standard health care plans. which mean...

Which means you would have to purchase separate abortion insurance in the form of a special rider. so, if, say, you were raped and need an abortion, too bad. should have bought rape insurance ahead of time. your standard michigan health insurance plan cannot cover abortion under any circumstances. eight states already have laws in effect restricting insurance coverage for abortion. just one of them allows coverage for rape victims. and while most of them allow for special abortion insurance ride...

Salon.com. great to have both of you with us. this is a powder keg, which i think has implications for 2016. terry, how important is this race next tuesday? >> its absolutely one of the most important you can imagine. virginia has a history of electing a governor of the other party from who won the presidency in the previous year. so in 2012, president obama is re-elected, and following history, you would expect a republican to win the virginia gubernatorial election. i dont think thats going to...

And are not going to testify then the prosecution is going to have a huge problem. >> the prosecutor said daisy and her mom were uncooperative. they said they were all willing to testify. >> i have to tell you, first of all -- i used to try child sex crimes. bottom line, victims dont want to cooperate for many different reasons. >> its common. >> they are terrified and traumatized. they allegedly said they wanted to plead the fifth was during a defense deposition. defense council was cross exami...

The final bill, so it never became law. now theyre saying that the creation of the independent advisory board would be the new rationing board, the death panels, its not true. >> last one for you, ryan. and i find this to be the most ironic claim, that obama care will intrude into peoples sex lives and personal privacy. just a reminder thats coming from the party that brought you the transvaginal probe. >> its similar to the irs. one, its like, when these folks, you know, want a certain policy c...

There are rape victims who are in denial and also certain portion of women couldnt raise money for an abortion and travel far from the home and deplays them. >> martha, this is an agonizing decision for the doctors, as well who make the decisions with their patients. >> yeah. i mean, i think what was amazing for us is seeing how the doctors have these incredibly nuanced, complex views of their own work and so you actually see, you know, we focused on the doctors themselves and within them you se...

Necessarily unique to usc. there have been other women from other campuses across the country with similar claims. >> reporter: thats true. and we did also confirm that with the department of education. they say they have open investigations with several universities looking into claims on how these rape cases, these claims of rape, are being handled at these schools. and with what these students are alleging. as far as the two women that i talked to, because i wanted to just mention this, i als...

Working and a mom is in the workplace. >> kids cannot read good because women have the jobs now. again, that was mississippis republican governor, phil bryant. it was a busy morning in washington. while saxby chambliss was explaining the hormone thing, phil bryant was explaining the scourge of women working, destroying the literacy rate, on capitol hill, an all male subcommittee passed a bill on party lines to ban all abortions after 20 weeks, everywhere in the country. no exception for rape vic...