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Twenty-one years ago, Grinnell College student Tammy Zywicki, then 21, was driving back to school from her home in New Jersey when her car broke down on an Illinois highway.

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the Democrat who got national attention for her race against Todd Akin of "legitimate rape" fame , this morning formally endorsed a 2016 Clinton bid through Ready for Hillary , an independent group that is, well, ready for Hillary to run.

The short film is as tricky an art to master as it is to offer solid criticism on, and yet, as is usually the case, when a solid piece of work is placed before the eyes, solid criticism comes.

Last week, Republican Rep. Trent Franks dismissed concerns about banning abortion for victims of rape and incest by saying that they really don't get pregnant all that often so it's no big deal.

HOUSE SET TO VOTE ON 20-WEEK ABORTION BAN BILL The House is set to plunge back into a battle over abortion today when lawmakers vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks nationwide.

After Republicans lost the presidential election and seats in both the House and the Senate last year, many in the party offered a stern admonishment: If we want to broaden our appeal, steer clear of divisive social and cultural issues.

House Republican leaders are hoping to head off a repeat of last week's controversy over the issue of whether there should be an exception for cases of rape and incest in a GOP sponsored bill banning late term abortions by adding that exception before the House debates the measure on Tuesday.

The federal abortion wars are back this week, as the House of Representatives votes on a national ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, that is highly unlikely to become law.

Usually on the internet when Nazi analogies come into play, it means Godwin's Law -the theory that all online arguments will eventually devolve into a Hitler comparison-has been invoked and the conversation is over.

Rep. Ann Wagner may no longer be a diplomat, but she's always had a bit of a diplomatic nature.

Didn't we go over this already? Apparently the backlash surrounding Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's controversial-and wildly inaccurate--claim that you can't get pregnant from "legitimate rape" didn't make an impact on Trent Franks.

House Republicans have modified a tough anti-abortion bill to include exceptions for rape and incest after the GOP sponsor of the legislation raised a firestorm by declaring that very few rapes result in pregnancies.

After Todd Akin last year and Trent Franks this week, abortion is about the last topic many national Republicans want the political conversation to focus on.

Rick Santorum has had a hard time getting in the discussion about 2016. The deep bench of Republican contenders for the next presidential election has moved the unofficial runner up in the 2012 GOP contest to the party's back burner.

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, took flak across the political spectrum earlier this week after saying that "the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is very low."

On Capitol Hill, Rep. Trent Franks explained why he supports a national 20-week abortion ban without exceptions for rape an incest by claiming that pregnancies resulting from rape are very rare , a very similar claim to how former Rep. Todd Akin defended his extreme anti-abortion views.

On June 11 , Slate editor Emily Bazelon whipped out the Nazi card against Congressman Trent Franks.

CNN tarred the Romney campaign with Todd Akin's infamous "legitimate rape" comment, and now it is trying to do the same to Rep. Trent Franks for making a much less controversial remark on rape and pregnancy.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill to outlaw nearly all abortions after the 22nd week of pregnancy.

Rachel Maddow , who has been uncompromising in her pursuit of the Virginia Republican Party's radical turn, brought good news and bad news from Richmond: their candidate for lieutenant governor no longer believes yoga is the work of Satan, but their candidate for attorney general wants miscarriages reported to the police and their new head of ... (more)