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Akin Remarks Push Gender Issues to Center Stage.

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Akin Remarks Push Gender Issues to Center Stage

August 22, 2012, 1:44 pm

By Michael D. Shear and Jonathan Weisman

New York Times

Politics

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/
akin-remarks-push-gender-issues-to-center-stage/

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Just days before Mitt Romney formally assumes the leadership of his party,
he and his Republican colleagues are once again confronting the party's
long-standing difficulty attracting the support of women - a demographic
reality that could cost Mr. Romney the White House.

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Representative Todd Akin's refusal to step aside in the Missouri Senate
race in the wake of his comments about rape and pregnancy has forced
gender issues back into the political conversation just as Mr. Romney was
hoping to refocus it on his personal story and the nation's struggling
economy.

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And the Republican Party's decision this week to endorse an anti-abortion
plank at its convention - without an exception for rape - raises new
questions about whether, and how, Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul D.
Ryan, can close the party's gap in support among women.

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In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday, President Obama
leads Mr. Romney among women by 10 percentage points, 51 percent to 41
percent.

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In the last 24 hours, Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have all but ignored the
broader issues of abortion and gender politics on the trail. The subject
did not come up at a joint town-hall-style meeting in New Hampshire on
Monday morning, and Mr. Ryan did not bring up the issue at a rally in
Roanoke, Va., Wednesday morning.

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Mr. Ryan, who co-sponsored a bill with Mr. Akin that aimed to restrict the
definition of rape, was pressed on Mr. Akin's comments in a television
interview Wednesday morning. Mr. Ryan declared that "rape is rape, and
there's no splitting hairs over rape." He defended his record on abortion
but said Mr. Romney would set policy as president.

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"I'm proud of my pro-life record. And I stand by my pro-life record in
Congress," Mr. Ryan said on Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV. "It's something I'm
proud of.

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