Title: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
Headings: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
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Content: Martha MacCallum asked Bernie Sanders at a Fox News town hall. “ I think that that happens very, very rarely,” Sanders replied, before concluding: “ The decision over abortion belongs to a woman and her physician, not the federal government, not the state government.” “I trust women to draw the line,” Pete Buttigieg said when asked a similar question. Ditto Beto O’Rourke. It’s widely known that the Democratic party has shifted to the left on abortion over the years. What makes Democratic rhetoric on abortion in 2020 remarkable is that it is not a break merely from Jimmy Carter’s 1976 support to ban taxpayer funding of abortion or from Bill Clinton’s 1992 pledge to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare.” The 2020 Democrats are taking a more extreme position on late-term abortion than the most recent Democratic president, Barack Obama. Here’s what Democratic presidential nominee Obama told Relevant, a Christian magazine, in July 2008: I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother.