have you heard paul ryan talk about the difference between legitimate rape and illegitimate rape. there are a lot of people twho don t believe in the exceptions. if abortion is murder, they believe abortion is murder. i can see their position. i believe in the exception. don t compare paul ryan to a guy who says, well, i ve been talking to doctors. oh, i m not. hold on. because i ve been hearing this crap for 24 hours. you never heard paul ryan say i talked to a doctor and a doctor told me when a woman being raped there are biological devices that shut down her system so she doesn t get pregnant.
holmes skin. he wrote a letter once to the editor of the moline daily dispatch explaining people should stop worrying about rape victims in cases like this. quote, concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in miami. that s james leon holmes. he wrote that in 1980. during the george w. bush administration, president bush gave him a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. james leon holmes is now the chief judge of the eastern district federal court in the state of arkansas. this is clayton williams. in 1990, clayton williams was the republican candidate for governor of texas. he was running against ann richards. ann richards beat him pretty well in the general election, but not before clayton williams told reporters that rape was a little bit like the weather. as long as it was inevitable, women should just lay back and
member todd akins remarks, the convince could outlaw abortion in all circumstances, even in the cases of rape and insesec i. the same draft language was used in 2004 and 2008. let s bring in the chairman of the republican national convention, reince priebus. good to see you. hey, chris, thanks for having me on. mitt romney does not oppose abortion in instances of rape. are republicans on the same page? what s going on here? chris, as you rightfully pointed out, this is the same language we had in the platform for many years. we re a pro-life party. do these things matter in the case of rape or incest? are those distinctions important?
he s not going to fight these people. and furthermore, who would be his allies? who are the people in that party who are going to stand up for women s rights? this is a party where in the senate, the entire republican caucus voted for the fluke what was it called, the flake amendment? the blunt amendment, excuse me, the blunt amendment, which allowed employers to sort of basically stop any kind of health care coverage that dealt with women s issues. it wasn t framed that way. the only one to vote against it was olympia snowe who is leaving the senate. so there s no there there for people who would stand with romney/ryan if they wanted to take the disingenuous position they that support exceptions on abortion. i don t even know what happens tomorrow on this let alone in the long run because we do have them saying now with romney/ryan administration would allow abortion for rape victims,
the republican incumbent. 12 years after the john ashcroft versus a person who is no longer among us race, the good and great state of missouri is once again facing a bit of a ballot problem. if you think it s complicated when one of the candidates dies, look at what they re dealing with this year. congressman todd akin was just picked up by republican voters in missouri to be their senate nominee, to challenge the sitting democratic u.s. senator claire mccaskill. yesterday, todd akin doused his political career, lit a match, and you know the rest. if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has wayed to try to shut that whole thing down. let s assume maybe that didn t work or something. i think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child. of the republican senators and senate candidate this year are calling on todd akin to step aside, to let another republican run against claire mccaskill for