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Controversial. very hard to get a conviction. millions of reasons why a woman bring charges. >> and todd akin has questioned marital rape. >> yes, he did. >> and we should say, he voted for the bill in the state legislature in missouri, a bill that would make marital rape a crime. >> and philosophically said, come on. this is ridiculous. the whole focus on rape it seems in-to-me in terms of the abortion debate. i don't want to say it's a distraction, but it does do the thing of, okay, if you just -- you're some virgin and you've been beaten up and it's truly horrible, then we'll let you have o...

Feel like -- by putting words in front of rape. i you think rape is bad. >> a bold statement. >> that's why we have it here. >> can we just agree that rape is bad? a few words that don't need modifiers. >> and talking about legislating the shaming of women when it comes to making health choices. that health is not a choice that is up to them. it's something that can be imposed externally by men. >> and the president said that this week. >> he said rape is rape. >> but he also said, you know, these are kind of legislators that are mostly men making health decisions for women. >> including him, ...

Up to mitt romney took 36 hours condemned the comment. we should be clear on that. >> i would argue they condemn him again saying it out loud on camera. that the thing in there is actually, i believe that's what they need. >> i think as he said, even though the dog whistle may have been accidental, he was cleaning his dog whistle and it just went off, i think they have, afterwards, it had the intended effect of a dog whistle and they played it as if it was intentional. i think the republicans are going to cast their lot with playing up fear and pandering and sort of meta trolling pandering as ...

Ill koch strickdoctrine.com. and so here -- an amazing thing happened this week, you wrote this incredible essay, very beautifully written as everything you write is, and complex and searching and sophisticated analysis of the kind of paradoxes of understanding of race in the obama era, how what has changed, what has not, the exceptions of the first black president across the racial divide for white americans, black americans, et cetera, and then into the new cycle came mitt romney speaking at a rally. >> he planned it. >> exactly. he apparently has a contract with the atlantic publicity burea...

Tubal pregnancy, something like that, what about in the case of rape? what do you think? >> people want to make that as one of those things, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. it seems to me, first of all, from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down. let's assume that didn't work or something, i think there should be some punishment, but the punishment should be in the rapist and not attacking the child. >> akin would haste ill apologize, but it's worth establishing for ...