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To shut that whole thing down. >> that position that congressman todd akin took toward rape victims on sunday thats made him so famous now, its not just todd akins position. i mean, its not like equivalent to scott brown believing he conferred with kings and queens when really he doesnt or remember when christine odonnell assured the nation there are human/rice hybrids. >> theyre cross breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. >> see, the todd akin ...

To shut that whole thing down. >> that position that congressman todd akin took toward rape victims on sunday thats made him so famous now, its not just todd akins position. i mean, its not like equivalent to scott brown believing he conferred with kings and queens when really he doesnt or remember when christine odonnell assured the nation there are human/rice hybrids. >> theyre cross breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. >> see, the todd akin ...

This long-held notion that in a rape trial it is the victim that is on trial. it is not the defendant. so i was just horrified and felt compelled to respond. >> you are a lawyer now who advocates on behalf of rape victims. and you have said that his comments have made your job more difficult. explain that. >> about two years ago i started kind of investigating why there are so many limited legal protections around the country to women who mother through rape. and what i struck on was this idea t...

And he said he would let the states decide what criminal penalties would be attached to abortions. this is a nice detail. ryan said he has never specifically advocated jailing women who have abortions or doctors who perform them, but he added, if its illegal, its illegal. so presumably the states would make it illegal and would prescribe jail terms for women and that would be okay with him. paul ryan even in his first run for congress was running on criminalizing abortion with no exceptions for ...

Obstetrics and gynecology puts it around 30,000 women a year in the united states, that the government should force you to carry that pregnancy to term against your will. >> goldie, does this open a window into republican thinking, that for those of us who think that abortion should be available, not just for rape victims, but especially for rape victims, its hard to comprehend exactly what people are thinking when they say, it shouldnt. is -- does this help actually explain what a lot of conser...

Because that, to me, is the essential. when people recoil at what todd akin said, i mean, some of it is obviously because of his incredibly, this kind of medieval language, and also this kind of impugning the honor of women who have gotten pregnant through rape, kind of implying that they werent really raped. that they must be lying about what really happened. but the other piece of it that has so many people up in arms is that hes made really clear what many, many republicans believe. which, ag...

In 1998, in arkansas again, the republican u.s. senate candidate running against blanche lincoln, a man named fay boozman was reported in a local arkansas paper to have told a crowd at a political gathering that there was no need for a rape victims exception to making abortion criminal because of something he described as gods little shield. he later denied using the exact phrase gods little shield, but he did explain further that based on anecdotal information he had collected as an opthalmolog...

Distinguish it from nonforceable rape, the kind of rape women secretly want and like? republicans upon taking control of the house in their third bill, sought to redefine rape because the old definition of rape apparently included too many things that women wanted to be protected from when we all know they were the kind of rape that are really no big deal. paul ryan, the republican vice presidential nominee, was an original cosponsor of the bill to redefine rape. to make it harder on rape victim...

Believes that rape and incest victims should be forced by the state to give birth against their will. >> in new hampshire, in georgia, in indiana, in virginia, in idaho, south carolina, in iowa, republicans in all of those states in the past couple years have moved to overtly go after rape victims and incest victims and anti-abortion laws removing protections they used to have in law. in the house of representatives, federally, when republicans voted on a new abortion ban for washington, d.c. re...

Vice presidential contender paul ryan. both co-sponsors on a bill that would redefine rape when it comes to abortion. the romney campaign insists it supports abortion exemptions for rape victims. this is certainly a major distraction from their efforts to focus on the economy and president obamas record. rob, paula, back to you. >> critical thing about the race -- thank you, karen. that theyre really eyeing the race to help take control of the senate. gop its. this is not something on a lot of l...