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Affordable care act's protection and coverage of contraception for all women who are insured. many women which simply when forced to choose between contraception and food or contraception and child care -- >> sure. >> -- have made the choice to go with their child care or their food. it is absolutely a pocketbook issue, and we've known this for years, and this study certainly backs it up. >> if we just look at international indicators. i mean, in places where women have control over their reproductive capacity, they have higher educational gains and a higher income, they have smaller families....

Now, the binders have been moved at the table, and in their place wefr jillian of the financial times, republican strategist rick tyler, who is now an advisor to missouri congressman todd akin, melanie ruselle is the national press secretary for the democratic national committee, and christopher achen, professor of politics at princeton university. i want to come to you on this, because i felt like the president made exactly the connection that had needed to be made for weeks, which is, yes, on the one hand, there's this issue about reproductive rights, but those reproductive rights issues are...

Justices to do that. he doesn't support contraception coverage in the affordable care act and wants to repeal the whole thing. when you look at the broad bases of where the republican candidates from top to bottom stand on women's health issues, and this is very much what joe walsh said, there's no -- i mean, it's outrageous to start, and it's just not based in fact. >> so is this effective? can you -- because look, governor romney has been trying to moderate his position. he is saying, actually, i'm not in that camp. is that an effective sort of strategic position to say listen to these guys ...

Going to improve the economy, which is, you know, what governor romney is telling us is the number one issue, the reproductive rights become part of this story. >> remember, george steph naul naup lis asked this question during the debate, and romney answered this question because we had no idea where this is going, and now we do. i think this issue in a large way -- and i don't want to diminish or demean it, but in a large way it's a distraction from romney's record -- or from obama's record. the fact is contraception is available. nobody denies it unless we are going to name some people, are...

How much of this is a function of not the split delegates or the money or all this but the fact that the actual debate is a terrible debate? that we're complaining not -- of course you want to short an lousy debate, but you could have a long fantastic debate as well. >> no. absolutely. look, the -- if you're an independent voter, and let's say rugt now the independent voter is the key to the outcome in november, first of all, the entire field, the bachmanns, the perrys, the her man caines, you're convinced this is nothing more than a clown circus, number one. then, number two, as you narrow th...