now he accepts this platform that makes women criminals and doctors criminals. and he is backing mourdock at this point and he picked paul ryan. let s not forget, paul ryan who wanted to make forms of birth control illegal. yeah. so i don t need to hear more from him, ed. i know this guy has nothing in his heart that indicates to me he stands with women. so whatever he says you can t believe it anyway. senator you know, you can t just believe it. exactly. do you agree with president obama that roe v. wade is at stake in this election? without a doubt. there s no question about it. it is hanging by a thread. and that s a whole issue that people don t really think about. you know, it s there s so many issues out there. but who picks the next supreme court justices, that is so important. and when you have a republican nominee who didn t lift a finger to change the republican
and when you have a republican nominee who didn t lift a finger to change the republican platform, that says abortion will be criminal, and no exception for rape, no exception for incest. look, i want to just say one thing about the issue of rape. i don t know if you saw congresswoman gwen moore. she was on one of the shows. i believe it was i don t remember whose it was. it was on msnbc. i think it was chris. she talked about how she was a victim of rape and how you have post traumatic stress and it scars you for life. rape is a heinous crime. in many states, ed, half the states, there s in statute of limitations so 10, 20, 30 years later they find dna, they can prosecute the perpetrator. we are talking about a serious crime. instead of being on the side of the women, mitt romney s all over the place and he stands
i think the consistency i m talking about, akin s comments were reprehensible. mourdock s comments i can understand that from being pro-life. romney said, i don t agree with them and we need to move on. here s the problem wait a minute, we re talking about defending the party platform right now. that s what romney is not doing. no, mourdock he s asked questions about it on the campaign trail and doesn t respond. ed, this is mourdock s comments do not represent the republican party. the republican platform. that is one individual they do. no, he s pro-life. okay. he s pro-life. but paul ryan has stated it doesn t matter what caused the conception. no. paul ryan and mitt romney have both said the same thing. keli? no, no, no. they believe there s an inception for rape and incest. no, no, no, what paul ryan said on video, which you can find in my column, a plug there, my link to that, he doesn t believe the method of conception, which how he describe rape,
barbara boxer of california. senator, great to have you with us on this very important issue. and this issue continues to steam roll across the country. the latest numbers out show in the swing states that 39% of women in the swing states now say that abortion is the number one issue. senator, what does this mean? well, let me just say right now, this is the moment of truth for mitt romney and i think all of america, men and women, will see, all of us will see, that he s been tap dancing around all of this for too long. he is not on the side of women. it went back to the platform, ed. you discussed it many times. the republican platform said we re going to make abortion criminal and we re not going to protect women who are raped or the victims of incest. and mitt romney never lifted one finger to change it. then he picked paul ryan. paul ryan who said, rape is a
here s the problem wait a minute, we re talking about defending the party platform right now. that s what romney is not doing. no, mourdock he s asked questions about it on the campaign trail and doesn t respond. ed, this is mourdock s comments do not represent the republican party. the republican platform. that is one individual they do. no, he s pro-life. okay. he s pro-life. but paul ryan has stated it doesn t matter what caused the conception. no. paul ryan and mitt romney have both said the same thing. keli? no, no, no. they believe there s an inception for rape and incest. no, no, no, what paul ryan said on video, which you can find in my column, a plug there, my link to that, he doesn t believe the method of conception, which how he describe rape, should dictate the outcome. he said i m part of the romney platform. i ve known paul ryan for 21 years. he s been very consistent