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Vote, his announcement at a campaign event in iowa last night sort of striking announcement, that he's changed his mind on abortion. he said seeing mike huckabee's dvd about abortion has caused him to change his stance on the issue. even though rick perry is very, very antiabortion, he's for criminalizing it, he used to believe that the government shouldn't force rape victims or victims of incest to bear the child of their rapist or of their incestuous attacker. now, after seeing the movie, mr. perry has decided that the government should in fact force victims of rape and incest to bear the ch...

College. and then i was abducted and raped. it changed everything. initiative 26 doesn't make any exceptions for rape or incest. it goes too far. it would be so bad for women and families. i don't trust the government. i trust mississippi families and women to make these important decisions. it's perfectly acceptable to be pro life and against initiative 26. >> that message worked in mississippi. personhood lost in mississippi by double digits last fall. in part because it turns out people do not like the idea of the government forcing rape victims to bear the child of their rapist. but you kn...

Their will. he said he got one word wrong in one sentence, but he's not changing his policy. he still wants rape victims to be forced by the government to bear the child of the rapist against their will. that's a very common position in republican politics right now. it's shared by the republican party officially which adopted it into their official party platform that will be ratified on monday. we'll talk about that later on. it's a position shared by the republican's soon to be vice presidential nominee. when he was running for congress in 1998, here is how paul ryan was explaining his posi...

Mcdonnell, but when he wasn't willing to defend that position anymore, when he wasn't willing to defend making rape victims bear their rapist's baby, bob mcdonnell abandoned that position. he did it messily. he abandoned the position, but he didn't want to be held accountable for that position anymore, so he abandoned it. he stopped defending the position. he tried to pretend it had never been his position. the same cannot be said right now for mitt romney and paul ryan who are night now trying to have that position but not be held accountable for it. again, today, the republican party's platf...

Good to see you here. >> thanks for having me. >> after what you have been through in life and in politics in mississippi, what was your reaction when you saw this firestorm happen about congressman akin's comments this week. >> i was completely offended and infuriated. it just -- it's hard not to take it personally when a politician says something like this as a rape victim. 20 years ago when i was abducted and raped and shot twice, obviously, if a personhood initiative or amendment or nationwide something had been in place, i would have been forced by the government to bear a child that coul...