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Michael Steele: GOP plank not ‘mainstream’
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele admitted Wednesday that not including rape exemptions in an abortion ban is “way outside” the “mainstream of American thought” Wednesday, but said Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign shouldn’t have a “big fight” over changing the GOP platform, which includes no such exemptions.
“No,” Steele said on NewsChannel8’s “NewsTalk,” when asked by host Bruce DePuyt if opposing a rape exemption was a mainstream position. “There’s a wide array of views on the issue, and there are a lot. I think recent polls have showed a bare majority of Americans — 50, 51 percent of Americans — call themselves pro-life, but even in calling themselves pro-life, they recognize the exemptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. So this view held by [Rep. Todd Akin] is way outside that mainstream of American thought.”
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