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With that position. and by casting. >> laura: but it's in the republic platform. >> and by casting the possibility of one being a moderate pro-life candidate, who supports -- hospitals to outlaw abortion but understands there are certain crucial exceptions, life of the mother, rape and incest, you make clear that this is a spectrum and that romney is an acceptable place on the spectrum. let me also say about the economy, the reason the economy hasn't been the number one issue is because medicare has been the number one issue. and ryan has done a spectacular job of using the piggy bank metaphor...

Second trimester. >> no exception for rape or incest is far out of the mainstream thinking of most americans. >> laura: that has been in the republic platform. monica, can you speak to this for the last i believe two or three platforms. and mitt romney doesn't write the platforms, monica. and he actually doesn't have to abide by the platforms. >> that's what he said today. >> that's right. first of all, laura. you are absolutely right. this has been part of the republic platform for many many years. this is not something new. when you look at polling on the question of proabortion vs. pro-life...

Second trimester. >> no exception for rape or incest is far out of the mainstream thinking of most americans. >> laura: that has been in the republic platform. monica, can you speak to this for the last i believe two or three platforms. and mitt romney doesn't write the platforms, monica. and he actually doesn't have to abide by the platforms. >> that's what he said today. >> that's right. first of all, laura. you are absolutely right. this has been part of the republic platform for many many years. this is not something new. when you look at polling on the question of proabortion vs. pro-life...

Bringing up an issue we should be talking about. that's not what the romney campaign is talking about. you have got a republic platform that was just announced yesterday with no exception for rape or incest antiabortion. >> laura: alan, take a breath. >> far to the right of what romney said he is. >> laura: couple of things i need to correct going back to your first comments when you said most people are pro-choice. actually factually untrue. >> right. >> laura: after the first trimester of pregnancy heavy majority of americans. >> after the first trimester but the republicans would outlaw it ...

Bringing up an issue we should be talking about. that's not what the romney campaign is talking about. you have got a republic platform that was just announced yesterday with no exception for rape or incest antiabortion. >> laura: alan, take a breath. >> far to the right of what romney said he is. >> laura: couple of things i need to correct going back to your first comments when you said most people are pro-choice. actually factually untrue. >> right. >> laura: after the first trimester of pregnancy heavy majority of americans. >> after the first trimester but the republicans would outlaw it ...