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Preventing pregnancy is wrong. you understand that? >> yeah. >> i don't know what he's saying. said yeah, there might be discredited. sure. he's pretty casual about his lack of interested scientific information it seems. it seems to me the main point is your attitude towards the rights of women, the attitudes whether sex should be a mutual decision, that it's entirely mutual or legitimate and the whole idea that there's some different categories of rape just drives people crazy. >> i feel odd talking about this on air. this is odd we're talking about this. >> i'll say. >> we're talking about r...

The amendment he put in that had paul ryan as a supporter used the term forcible rape. there are studies that show that one-half of out of wedlock births among teenagers are the result of rape by older men of teenage children and especially in poor black, poor white communities, it's very often mom's boyfriend. now, that -- you can't distinguish between that and forcible rape. that's disgraceful. >> let me get back to the idea of the republican party. donna, you're a democrat, but the republican party is meeting this week coming off this whole crazy thing with todd akin and this debate's going...

Whole human beings when it comes to rape and to the horror and tragedy of it. so as a woman, it actually hurts me because i thought we were long past this debate, but clearly, we're not. >> what's interesting, the weird intellectual linkage, you can take that debate, fine, but he use that is very strong pro-life position to cast doubt as a republican on rape. as an idea. because it's inconsistent with his republican notion, which is in the platform, we know, the draft form already. they' there can be no borkss under any circumstances including rape, so they have to almost define a way i should...

Today to explain what he meant by legitimate rape, he meant what most of us thought he meant the first time. that significant number of women who charge rape are not victims of rape. only in certain cases. well, to assess the perils of this, i'm joined by michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and nia handerson of "the washington post." late this afternoon, mitt romney came around to the position that akin should quote exit the senate race. but the timeline on how romney evolved to this point is not exactly a profile in courage. on sunday, within hours of the comm...

Work with, the producers and all, not all liberals, i got to tell you, by any means. not all liberals at all, are very sensitive to that word he used, legitimate. as if to imply, let's not believe every woman's charge. why would a woman go into court and charge anybody with rape, which is a major crime, if they didn't believe they were raped. what an assumption to make, we know how women are sometimes but tally interrogated. >> again, i think with certain members of the pro-life community, there is a sense that real rape doesn't result in pregnancy. >> as opposed to what other kind of rape. wh...