At a campaign event on Monday night, presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke said that he believes women should have the right to kill their unborn babies up to the moment of birth.
O’Rourke was confronted by a young man in the College of Charleston audience about his radical pro-abortion position, which is on-par with the field of Democratic presidential candidates. “My question is this: I was born September 8th, 1989, and I want to know if you think on September 7th, 1989, my life had no value,” he asked the Democrat.
“Of course I don’t think that. And of course I’m glad that you’re here,” O’Rourke responded. “But you referenced my answer in Ohio, and it remains the same. This is a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the United States government should be making. That’s a decision for the woman to make.”
After a momentary pause due to an applauding audience, O’Rourke said that he wants pregnant women “to have the best possible access to care and to medical providers,” later adding that “only” a pregnant woman “knows what she knows, and I trust her with that.”
The 49-year-old also claimed that the state of Texas, where O’Rourke made an unsuccessful run for a Senate seat, is “losing lives of women” due to pro-life legislation.
In March, O’Rourke unapologetically spoke out for abortion-till-birth in Cleveland, Ohio. “Are you for third-trimester abortions? Are you going to protect the lives of third-trimester babies?” a female audience member asked the media darling, as previously reported by The Daily Wire. “Because, you know, there’s really not a medical necessity for (late-term) abortion — it’s not a medical emergency procedure — because typically third-trimester abortions take up to three days to have. So, in that sense, if there was an emergency, the doctors would just do a [caesarian]-section, and you don’t have to kill the baby in that essence. So, are you for or against third-trimester abortions?”
O’Rourke answered, “The question is about abortion and reproductive rights. And, my answer to you is, that should be a decision the woman makes. I trust her.”
While O’Rourke’s position that abortion should be legal until the moment of birth is terrifying, it is in lockstep with his Democratic counterparts. Presidential hopefuls like Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have all endorsed late-term abortion. Moreover, as noted by Fox News, Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate have effectively gone on record as pro-infanticide by voting down the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act proposed by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). The bill would force doctors to treat born-alive infants from botched abortions with full medical care, instead of letting them die.
In June, NPR reported that public support for abortion in the third trimester is at only 13%. “Gallup finds that 60 percent of Americans believe abortion generally should be legal during the first three months of pregnancy, known as the first trimester. That support drops by more than half, to 28 percent, once a pregnancy reaches the second trimester; it falls to 13 percent in the third trimester, at which point the fetus is often viable with medical support,” the report noted.
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