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They prefer to talk about it in the work police as a distinctive issue. nothing to do with whether or not women can control their own bodies. right now the democrats are making the argument the two cannot be separated. the that argument has been resonating with women. that's part of the reason he may not want to go on "meet the press" and not talk about abortion. he has a clear record on the issue. paul opposes abortion without exception. not cases of rape, incest or the health of the expectant mother. in 2010 he filled out a questionnaire reaffirming he opposes abortion in cases of rape and i...

Complex. it's textured. it isn't censored. when you ask questions in different ways you get different responses. and there's a constant battle on both sides. but when the rubber hits the road, which is like this thing is on the ballot, the data is clear in that respect. >> well, it depends what the issues are. if the issue is sex election in an abortion -- it may not. but there are laws out there or on the books. if there are issues about parental notification, where do they go? i'm not so sure. >> it's quote in which the pro-lifers seem to win. >> all i'm saying is while some of what we're de...

Roles or not. it's clear one does not stand for that. and there's dissent whether they want to be for traditional gender roles or not. >> i agree. you're describing the positions of what i see as fairly extreme positions. and you know, they do have a big following. i don't deny that. but i think there's a mistake in assuming that there's this black and white approach to abortion. maybe not contraception. i mean abortion. let's take abortion. so if you look at the polls, i mean, women -- it's not clear that a war against women would mean -- >> but that's a really important point, i think. right...

Kind of parody. when you take all that into account. >> right. and the taking into account gets me precisely at this point. there's this argument that you need to bracket out -- yes, what the gop wants to say, irene is yes, we are a pro-life party. resolutely pro-life. we are aggressively pro life. we are aggressively anti-abortion. we're constantly waging this battle. but that has nothing to do with any war on women. these are separable things. you can be for women's equality and against reproductive choice. that's the argument they're trying to make. why is that not a legislatimate argument?...

>> right. and the taking into account gets me precisely at this point. there's this argument that you need to bracket out -- yes, what the gop wants to say, irene is yes, we are a pro-life party. resolutely pro-life. we are aggressively pro life. we are aggressively anti-abortion. we're constantly waging this battle. but that has nothing to do with any war on women. these are separable things. you can be for women's equality and against reproductive choice. that's the argument they're trying to make. why is that not a legitimate argument? >> well, they're trying to go forward and say it doesn'...