Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t establish a single restriction on abortion that she helps throughout a CBS Information interview, though she was given the chance a number of occasions.
Harris mentioned abortion with “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan in an interview that aired Sunday.
“What’s it that you simply consider? What week of being pregnant ought to abortion entry to be minimize off?” Brennan requested the vp.
“We have to restore the protections of Roe vs. Wade. We’re not attempting to do one thing new,” Harris started, earlier than the CBS host minimize her off to level out: “That was nebulous, as a result of it was about [fetal] viability, which could possibly be anyplace between 20 to 24 weeks. That was within the Girls’s Well being Safety Act that the White Home additionally endorsed.”
“No, no, no, no, no,” responded a ruffled Harris. “Let me be very clear. Let me be very clear. From Day One, the president has been clear. I’ve been clear. We have to put again the protections which are in Roe v. Wade into regulation. For the reason that Supreme Courtroom took it, Congress has the ability and talent to cross laws, to place these protections again in regulation, and Joe Biden will signal that invoice. So, that’s what we wish.”
Brennan pressed once more.
“Does it should be particular by way of defining, the place that assure goes as much as, and the place it doesn’t? Which week of being pregnant?”
When Harris once more begins to speak concerning the significance of placing again the “protections” of Roe v. Wade, Brennan tells her, “ why I’m asking you this query, although. Republicans say the dearth of a exact date in slicing it off, you realize this, they are saying that permits Democrats to carry out abortions up till delivery, which is statistically not correct.”
“Which is ridiculous!” Harris exclaimed. “It’s ridiculous, and it’s a mischaracterization of the purpose.”
“Will we should be extra exact?” Brennan pressed.
“I’m being exact,” Harris insisted, earlier than once more stressing about reinstating the “protections of Roe v. Wade.”
Brennan even requested Harris about GOP proposals—particularly, that of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to guard unborn infants at 15 weeks. Harris once more insisted on specializing in Roe v. Wade.
Graham weighed in Sunday on her remarks.
“That is really breaking information,” he stated. “Vice President Harris at the moment stated the concept that Democrats assist abortion on demand, up-to-the-minute of delivery, is ‘ridiculous.’”
Former White Home press secretary Kayleigh McEnany additionally slammed the vp’s remarks on social media, tweeting, “Vice President Kamala Harris refuses to say at what week a child ought to be protected by regulation. Watch this alternate. Ought to it’s when a child feels ache? When a child has a heartbeat? Start? She is not going to say.”
The professional-life group Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America additionally weighed in.
“No shock that Harris refuses to checklist any particular week or limits on abortion. “NARAL, Deliberate Parenthood (multimillion greenback donors to Dems) brazenly assist no limits on abortion. Are they mistaken @KamalaHarris?”
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from The Each day Sign.
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