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Exceptions in the bill, incest and rape, and she did not need to -- she did not do that and she went on to sign that bill into law. >> what are your fellow lawmakers tell you when you say, you know, when you went with that gentleman there -- it's one thing when it's on the floor being recorded, but what are the men and other colleagues saying to you about why they won't recognize rape and incest, why they want a law as harsh as this one? >> well, what you have to understand is that this is a political hot button that is part of the republican agenda across this entire country. so you have p...
Those two exceptions should be made, they would not, they would not. i have to say there were four senators who did vote for that exception and that was senators ward, jones, marsh and mcclendon. and i applaud them for that. it was also in the senate that it was those all-republican men that voted this into law, but before it got to the senate it came from the house of representatives, which is where it started. and let me make sure everyone knows that it was a woman, representative terry collins, who sponsored this bill and it was also the other four or five republican women in the house of r...