The candidates also talked about abortion rights, a topic not addressed in the previous presidential debate.
The states' positions are at odds with overall American public opinion about abortion, which is more moderate and less clear-cut.
Regardless of how one feels about abortion or birth control (or even how one feels about religion), this is a bad policy.
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Yoest's optimism derives partly from her belief that young Americans are increasingly skeptical about abortion, though polls give mixed verdicts on this matter.
When asked about abortion, Romney said he was wrong in favoring a woman's right to choose -- his position when he was elected governor of Massachusetts.
Instead of offering a crisp answer to how they felt about abortion rights, they went on to philosophize and say more than just answer the question.
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Rudy Giuliani, whose conflicting and confusing answers two weeks ago about abortion seemingly put him on the defensive, came off as better prepared this time, with crisper responses.
However, factual knowledge about abortion among this group is low.
Post-nomination Romney has made statements about abortion that would have likely prevented him from getting the nomination in the first place, but which are apparently now judged necessary to win the general election.
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"The real political debate about abortion in the UK should focus... on the right to life of all unborn children and on the way governments bankroll abortion access at home and abroad, " Mr Ozimic added.
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Progressives who support the right of fifteen year old girls to make decisions about abortion without parental notification do not trust these same girls later in life to make their own investment choices with their Social Security funds.
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"Much of the controversy about abortion is really stimulated by the interest groups on both sides of the political question, rather than by ordinary Americans, " said David Garrow, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and a longtime Supreme Court scholar.
The last time I checked with biologists, philosophers and even politicians on both sides of the debates about abortion, stem cell research and cloning, they were pretty certain human individuals were defined by two sets of chromosomes (half from the male, half from the female) which were arranged in the one-celled zygote after fertilization.
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The controversial remarks about whether abortion should be legal in the case of rape were made in an interivew with Missouri television station KTVI.
Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.
The late switch from Ms Rousseff to Ms Silva may have been caused partly by a row about Brazil's abortion laws.
Occasionally, they became fed up and resorted to a referendum to change the things they really minded about, such as abortion or divorce.
Keyes, the only black presidential candidate in either major party, spoke to lawmakers in sometime explosive bursts, mainly about his stance on abortion.
All beliefs and intuitions about whether and when abortion is moral or immoral amount to a priori assumptions, although one hopes such assumptions would be informed by an informed understanding of reproductive biology.
But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control and his view that the federal government shouldn't pay for prenatal screenings.
The retired nurse, who identifies as a Republican, says she regrets not speaking up about other issues like abortion and prayer in schools, but when it comes to health care, she says she has no choice.
In our current society in the U.S. we have debates about gay marriage, abortion - we have a lot of moral debates going on, and years from now we will believe different things from what we believe now, and so morality changes as a result of society, and that means you should not look for specifics of your morality in biology.
The depth of feeling over the issue of abortion came to the fore on 20 July when reports emerged that the health ministry was about to issue new guidelines on when abortion would be permitted.
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The first is, Congressman Stupak said he felt more optimistic yesterday about the process of negotiations on abortion language.
Yet already this year, Republican leaders in Texas, Mississippi and elsewhere are talking about new legislative efforts to restrict abortion.
For women, this election was about many different issues, not just abortion rights and Roe v Wade.
Both teenage pregnancy rates and teenage abortion rates have declined by about a third over the past 15 years.
Romney long held significant leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, but faced low expectations in conservative South Carolina because of questions about his Mormon faith and past support for abortion and gay rights.
It is in their economic interest to vote Democratic, but they don't because those crafty Republicans have got them all worked up about silly moral and cultural issues such as abortion, guns and gay marriage.
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Many thought Mr Gonzales had been Mr Bush's favourite to fill a vacancy on the court. (The chief justice, William Rehnquist, is ill and may soon retire.) But conservatives worried about his relatively easy-going views on abortion.
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