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That their own bodies have betrayed them, that their bodies are telling the world they were not assaulted when in fact they were. simply because they were unfortunate enough to get pregnant as a result of the rape. so what we've got is not only a war on women by refusing to allow rape exceptions to restrictions on abortion, we also have a really demeaning and damaging war on women by offering up this junk science justification for harming women's health care. it's just absolutely outrageous. >> does it show that the republican party will go as far as they have to go with junk science to make t...

Misspeaking at time. i would love to know who those doctors are. i would like to have their names. i would like to have permission to have a conversation with those doctors and find out what kind of science background they have to make this outrageous claim. i think what you were saying earlier, ed, is exactly right. you have to separate out the justification from the policy. so what todd akin was peddling was a justification for not allowing any rape exception to abortion bans or abortion restrictions. and the justification goes something like this. if she got pregnant, air go, she was not ra...

Congressman todd akin, missouri is trying to defeat claire mccaskill in a heated battle in the november election. he started a firestorm when he answered this question about abortion. >> what about in the case of rape? should it be legal or not? >> well, you know, people always want to try and make that as one of the 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 a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. let's assume maybe that didn'...

This amendment would outlaw abortions even in the case of rape or incest. if romney can't defend todd akin, he can't defend his own record. it's no surprise todd akin doesn't even want to defend the far right wing platform of anti-choice anymore. here's acon on hard right wing radio today? >> i heard one time a medical report that said it's hard to get, um, um, harder to get pregnant under those conditions. i don't believe that's true now. i in fact have checked the facts and that wrong. >> he's checked the faths. this guy isn't about facts at all. the junk science that todd akin is talking ab...

Of a candidate ever, seriously. how big a problem is this for the republicans, you think in. >> it's huge. i mean, i don't think i have ever said these four words, but sean hannity is right. the way he described the stakes here, ed, it really is dire for the republicans. but you've done a great job already of showing there's not a whole lot of daylight between todd akin and the rest of his party. the notion that he just misspoke, he gave us a window onto the way they think and talk about women and particularly the horrible issue of rape. i mean, listening to the way he described it, who goes a...