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Please clarify, i'm sorry, i'm not quite sure i heard that. she said in the emergency room they have what's called rape kits that the woman, she'll get cleaned out. can't believe i have to say this, but rape kits, for the record, are the kit that's used to collect forensic samples from a rape victim's body to be used in potential prosecution of the rapist. the sponsor of this legislation in texas apparently thinks a rape kit is an abortion? has no idea what a rape kit is, but she thinks it miraculously solves the problem of a rape-causing pregnancy. cleans her out. ah. so the magic rape kit th...

Reasoning for why rape victims should not be spared, that's when things went awry. >> you have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what's called rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out, and, again, hopefully that will alleviate that. >> this is the sponsor of the big omnibus antiabortion bill republicans are trying to pass in texas. she says rape kits alleviate the problem. the exact quote was rape kits that will help the woman, basically cleaning her out. a democratic representative then interrupted and asked her to please clarify, i'm sorry, i'm not quite sure i hear...

They have what's called rape kits that the woman, she'll get cleaned out. can't believe i have to say this, but rape kits, for the record, are the kit that's used to collect forensic samples from a rape victim's body to be used in potential prosecution of the rapist. the sponsor of this legislation in texas apparently thinks a rape kit is an abortion? has no idea what a rape kit is, but she thinks it miraculously solves the problem of a rape-causing pregnancy. cleans her out. ah. so the magic rape kit thing happened very late last night, as democrats were stretching out the debate on this abor...

The republicans were having none of that. and when the republican sponsor of the bill tried to explain her reasoning for why rape victims should not be spared, that's when things went awry. >> you have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what's called rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out, and, again, hopefully that will alleviate that. >> this is the sponsor of the big omnibus antiabortion bill republicans are trying to pass in texas. she said rape victims should not be exempted because rape kits alleviate the problem. the exact quote was rape kits that will help th...

Alleviate that. >> joining me now from austin, texas is planned parenthood president cecile richards. cecile, you're down there in texas fighting this thing. you hear a woman say something like this about the possible consequences of rape and the magic of rape kits. you're from texas. were you as shocked by that as the rest of us? >> well, of course, it was shocking. and it sort of exploded. but honestly, this is, lawrence, just one more evidence -- good piece of evidence of why politicians make terrible doctors and they shouldn't be making medical decisions for women. and i think that what we...