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I thought he'd appreciate the update on how politics is going. before mike pence became governor of indiana, he spent years in congress trying to pass amendments defunding planned parenthood at the federal level. he was unsuccessful in doing so. he never passed any legislation of any kind for the 12 years he was in congress. by the time he made it to the executive branch of our state he was able to follow through on the long-nursed ambitions. then-governor mike pence cut state funding for planned parenthood. cut it by half. then this year he signed into law a bill banning abortions in indiana ...

Provider, she was someone who worked there, because so few people would say, i was in the planned parenthood. even if they were there for a mammogram or prescription refill. there is such stigma that, in fact, even being willing to say i have crossed the threshold. that seems to be part of this problem. >> absolutely. i think reducing stigma, all sorts of things, including abortion, including just our own sexuality, the kind of shaming that happens. i think the continuum we're seeing around this extreme rhetoric that has kind of put planned parenthood in the cross hairs is not just connected t...

Recent decision in the hobby lobby case. udall has been focusing on the issue since the early days of this campaign. now new polling just out today shows gardner trailing udall by seven points overall in colorado and by 12 points among women voters. so just like for president obama in 2012, women right now are making the difference for mark udall and they could make the difference for other democrats in other critical senate races this year, too. now in light of that, democrats are upping the ante. today on capitol hill, senate democrats, a new piece of legislation that attempts to counteract ...

We showed that map to kind of show how these t.r.a.p. laws are having effects in the deep south and all of a sudden, ohio. why? >> well, because we elect the the same kind of people in 2010 that were elected in some of those southern states. they didn't run on those issues. they ran on saying they were going to bring jobs back but they have slowly but surely, sometimes through administration actions. head of ohio right to life was put by governor john kasich on the medical bothered. now you have people defining compliance with these laws are people that are very extreme on these issues. it's c...

Of a change that could reportedly cost 12,000 children to lose their afterschool care. and of course, house and senate worked together last session to push through bills that have proven controversial like last year's trap laws, limiting womens access to reproductive services were tacked on to a bill about motorcycle safety and the quote, popular voter id law as the governor's office described house bill 582349 a press release. critics have given it a different name. the monster law. it was passed in the last 72 hours of the 2013 session containing a whooping 56 pages of new voting laws that s...