defanging the fear motivation in getting democrats out to vote particularly democratic women out to vote for obama. but now you see democrats coming forward and saying well. up in until a few days ago. paul ryan and akin agreed on these issues. they worked together on that human life amendment to stop funding abortion, defined forcible rape vs. rape. they said if he was with him then. how can we trust him now. they are taking that nugget and exploding it. divide the voters. all of this makes it clear that romney is not there. all of it makes it clear that the republic party did, in fact, nominate romney, not gingrich or santorum. and obama would much rather run against gingrich or santorum because is he use them unfairly to scare women. but he can t use romney that way. and i think that this is a
defanging the fear motivation in getting democrats out to vote particularly democratic women out to vote for obama. but now you see democrats coming forward and saying well. up in until a few days ago. paul ryan and akin agreed on these issues. they worked together on that human life amendment to stop funding abortion, defined forcible rape vs. rape. they said if he was with him then. how can we trust him now. they are taking that nugget and exploding it. divide the voters. all of this makes it clear that romney is not there. all of it makes it clear that the republic party did, in fact, nominate romney, not gingrich or santorum. and obama would much rather run against gingrich or santorum because is he use them unfairly to scare women. but he can t use romney that way. and i think that this is a
conservative supreme court, and a president that can be polled by conservatives mean for women? what would it mean? well, first of all, hr-3 would be passed into law and signed. and that is a permanent restrictions on women being able to get insurance coverage for abortion care. and mind you, one out of three women will have an abortion by the age of 45. it is a common and necessary aspect of women s reproductive health care. but under the legislation that paul ryan is very eager to pass, and would pass if romney and ryan were elected, that access to insurance coverage will not be available. and again, women who are ill and need to terminate a pregnancy because of illness, those abortions cost upwards of $5,000 and more. so their families would have to dig into their pockets. in addition, the human life amendment, which is now in the republican platform once again, which basically criminalizes almost all abortion, and does not provide exceptions for rape
whatsoever between the real party bosses and akin. it s just what he said was a problem. the republican national convention has approved the human life amendment as part of its platform which would ban abortion without exception for rape or incest. 40 house and senate republicans have long embraced a ban on abortions without exceptions for rape and incest. let me tell you something, folks, they love this guy. this is their guy. this is who they want. here s akin on the today show this morning. let me say, this is not about me. this is not about my ego. but it is about the voters of the state of missouri. they have chosen me because of principles i stand on. no, no, no, no, no. of course, it is about you. it s about that guy that you just saw. and it s about a party that s trying to hide that they really do agree with him. let s bring in democratic strategist bob shrum and also
but there really is no daylight whatsoever between the real party bosses and akin. it s just what he said was a problem. the republican national convention has approved the human life amendment as part of its platform which would ban abortion without exception for rape or incest. 40 house and senate republicans have long embraced a ban on abortions without exceptions for rape and incest. let me tell you something, folks, they love this guy. this is their guy. this is who they want. here s akin on the today show this morning. let me say, this is not about me. this is not about my ego. but it is about the voters of the state of missouri. they have chosen me because of principles i stand on. no, no, no, no, no. of course, it is about you. it s about that guy that you just saw. and it s about a party that s trying to hide that they really do agree with him. let s bring in democratic strategist bob shrum and also