As the four Republicans vying for their party's presidential nomination took the stage for a debate in Jacksonville Thursday night, HLN's Nancy Grace focused on the impact their policies and positions could have on victims of crime.
Grace said she was stunned that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich's opposition to abortion extends to victims of rape and incest impregnated by their attackers.
"It's not just about the fetus itself. It's about the crime victim, the rape or the incest victim, that will have to live with a pregnancy and then give birth to the product of a rape," Grace said.
Grace also questioned Rep. Ron Paul's past opposition to a national Amber Alert system, but child advocate Marc Klaas echoed the congressman's concerns about imposing federal control on a program that was already working effectively on a state level.
Klaas, whose daughter Polly was kidnapped and murdered in 1993, said, "The Amber Alert system as it was originally conceived in Texas was a pristine system that used local law enforcement to notify local media to notify a local population but… quite frankly it's been morphed into a federal bureaucracy."
For all of the latest crime and justice news, watch "Nancy Grace" weeknights at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. EST on HLN.
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