Last night was a first. After dodging media interaction for weeks, Kamala Harris finally sat down for an on-camera interview with her running mate Tim Walz. Dana Bash asked the pair about fracking, immigration, drug prices and the economy but somehow in the nearly 30-minute-long interview did not ask a single question about abortion.
Given how abortion has become a top – if not the top – issue in Harris’ bid for the White House, the omission is puzzling. The new Democrat platform mentions abortion a record 13 times, almost three times more than the 2020 platform, and promises to ban states from protecting unborn children at any stage. Harris was the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion facility, with Gov. Tim Walz at her side. Tim Walz bragged that his record is so pro-abortion, “…Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down.”
Here are the three questions Bash should have asked Harris and Walz yesterday evening.
1. What limit, if any, do you support on abortion? Do you plan to push for a Minnesota-style law nationally that allows abortion in all nine months?
Last year, Gov. Walz signed the most extreme abortion bill into law to allow abortion at any point in pregnancy. Walz aligns with Harris who previously has not been able to point to a limit that she can support. This is in conflict with the vast majority of Americans who want to see abortion limited after a baby can feel pain at 15 weeks. Yet despite this perception, Kamala and the Democrats are advocating for the WHPA to mandate all-trimester abortion in every state.
2. Research shows over 60% of women who had abortions reported pressure to abort from boyfriends, family or other sources. What will you do to ensure women aren’t pushed into abortions they don’t want?
Women all across this nation – including Britney Spears – have experienced abortion coercion, and often from partners. Some have even experienced a new form of domestic violence where they are poisoned by abortion drugs. This is what happened to Catherine Herring in Texas when her abusive ex-husband spiked her drinks with abortion drugs after she told him she was pregnant. The Biden-Harris rule allowing the mail-order of abortion drugs without screening or a doctor visit is enabling this abuse.
3. What would you say to the millions of women who have received support from pregnancy centers and are concerned with your comments about shutting these centers down?
Pregnancy centers provide unmatched support to women who experience unplanned pregnancies. By offering free ultrasounds, diapers, formula, strollers, housing assistance, and financial help, they come alongside women during pregnancy and continue to provide help after a child is born. Yet, the most extreme Democrats like Kamala Harris have targeted these centers in an attack on choice in support of an agenda where abortion is the only solution. Harris recently said she supports efforts to shut down these pregnancy centers.
This won’t be last time the legacy media tries to brush Walz-Harris abortion extremism under the rug this election. This year SBA Pro-Life America and our partner super PAC Women are in the midst of the largest voter contact program yet, with a planned $92 million investment to reach 10 million voters—including making four million visits directly at their homes – across eight key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. We’re talking directly to voters to ensure abortion extremism costs the Left on Election Day.
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