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Speaking at a Fox News town hall event Sunday, Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg denounced legislation that restricts access to abortion and implied that there should be no limit on a woman’s right to terminate the life of her unborn baby at any point in her pregnancy.
“The dialogue has gotten so caught up in where you draw the line. I trust women to draw the line,” said Buttigieg.
“You would be okay with a woman well into the third trimester to obtain an abortion?” Wallace asked.
“These hypotheticals are set up to provoke a strong emotional reaction,” Buttigieg noted.
“These aren’t hypotheticals—there are 6,000 women a year who get an abortion in the third trimester,” said Wallace.
“That’s right, representing less than 1 percent of cases a year,” Buttigieg responded.
The number of abortions performed annually in the United States has consistently declined from a peak of 1,429,247 in 1990 to 638,169 in 2015, according to the most up-to-date figures from the CDC.
“Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it’s that late in your pregnancy … it’s [almost to the point] that you’ve been expecting to carry it to term,” Buttigieg added. “Families … then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime. … That decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.”
Mayor Buttigieg frequently attempts to frame his political arguments and proposed policies within the context of ‘morality.’ It’s a strategy that WIBC host Tony Katz finds disingenuous.
“It seems that Mayor Buttigieg is desperate to push himself in this idea that he is morality; that he is the moral one. And I’m very, very bothered by this, because I’ve looked at his policies, and I ask you, ‘What is actually moral about them?’
Medicare for All? What is moral about a policy that engages control? Gun control? What is moral about telling me that I cannot defend myself or my family. Elimination of the Electoral College? How could you be from Indiana and not be in favor of a proper level of representation? Representation should solely be based on population? Well, there goes two senators per state.”
Click the link below to hear Tony’s full commentary.
