{"id":1944469,"date":"2023-06-05T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-joe-scarborough-knows-democrats-not-americans-want-late-term-abortion\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:33:12","slug":"even-joe-scarborough-knows-democrats-not-americans-want-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-joe-scarborough-knows-democrats-not-americans-want-late-term-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Scarborough admits Dems, not Americans, support late-term abortion."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feven-joe-scarborough-knows-democrats-not-americans-want-late-term-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough Admits Democrats\u2019 Abortion Position Is Out of Touch with Americans<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p><span>Image Credit<\/span>Grabien sreengrab<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Even MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough admits the Democratic Party\u2019s position on abortion is nowhere near that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-11-17\/americans-support-the-right-to-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">average Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plurality of Americans support [abortion bans after] 15 weeks, 16 weeks, right? \u2026 Democrats don\u2019t want to be nailed down to [that],\u201d Scarborough said on \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans don\u2019t support 35 weeks. They don\u2019t support 38 weeks,\u201d he continued. \u201cI know 15 weeks is not where any Democratic candidate will ever go, but that is where most Americans are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat Party no longer champions the Clinton standard of \u201csafe, legal, and rare,\u201d with many candidates and elected officials now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-ash-wednesday-catholic-president-joe-biden-defends-supporting-abortion\/\" title=\"On Ash Wednesday, Catholic President Joe Biden Defends Supporting Abortion\">openly supporting abortion<\/a> as a moral good, rather than a harmful evil, up until \u2014 and sometimes even after\u00a0\u2014 birth. Democrat candidates no longer want to be \u201cnailed down\u201d into supporting \u201ca 15-week ban,\u201d \u201ca 20-week ban,\u201d or even a \u201c24-week ban,\u201d according to Scarborough.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Scarborough\u2019s comments followed a discussion about the abortion views of some Republicans who have yet to clarify their positions as the primary field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/republican-2024-field-gets-crowded-with-pence-christie-announce-bids-2023-05-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widens<\/a>. However, while many of the commentators on \u201cMorning Joe\u201d appeared to relish the possibility of abortion being one of the defining topics of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-sams-former-kamala-aide-and-grillary-clinton-apron-model-lands-new-gig-as-bidens-covid-spox\/\" title=\"Ian Sams, Former Kamala Aide and \u2018Grillary Clinton\u2019 Apron Model, Lands New Gig as Biden\u2019s COVID Spox\">primary debate<\/a>, Scarborough appeared less confident that this would be a winning issue for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have strayed farther from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-joe-scarborough-knows-democrats-not-americans-want-late-term-abortion\/\" title=\"Joe Scarborough admits Dems, not Americans, support late-term abortion.\">mainstream voters\u2019 opinions<\/a> about abortion in recent years, becoming increasingly radical while most Americans advocate for abortion restrictions at least as strict as the 15-week ban at issue in the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson <\/em>case, in which the Supreme Court struck down its previous invention of abortion as a constitutional right. According to a Harvard\/Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/05\/poll-the-republican-position-on-abortion-is-most-favorable-to-the-average-american\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> last year, 72 percent of voters threw their support behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-state-abortion-laws-put-supreme-court-under-the-microscope\/\" title=\"New State Abortion Laws Put Supreme Court Under the Microscope\">laws restricting abortion<\/a> after 15 weeks of gestation, if not sooner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/26\/bidens-position-on-abortion-is-so-extreme-the-white-house-wont-even-say-it-out-loud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden\u2019s Position On Abortion Is So Extreme, The White House Won\u2019t Even Say It Out Loud<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past, Democrat governors like Virginia\u2019s Ralph Northam have openly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/what-did-ralph-northam-really-say-about-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> for infanticide of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-defeat-bid-to-protect-abortion-survivors\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats Defeat Bid to Protect Abortion Survivors\">babies born alive<\/a> during botched abortions, although most voters <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dec1f82c4c630cb97ab7cefc58cf0866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemn<\/a> this radical position.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember in 2019 when former governor Ralph Northam openly defended infanticide for babies born alive during abortion: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMzxyyxCOR\">pic.twitter.com\/vMzxyyxCOR<\/a> 2\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SBA Pro-Life America (@sbaprolife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbaprolife\/status\/1494085453733052420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In 2022, House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-blasts-house-democrat-witness-called-abortion-act-self-love-pure-evil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">invited<\/a> a witness who described her abortion as \u201can act of self-love\u201d and \u201cthe best decision [she] ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Scarborough\u2019s comments suggest he\u2019s aware that, as the views of many Democrats become increasingly radical, it will be challenging to deny the growing chasm that separates the party\u2019s platform from the perspectives of average Americans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the Author:<\/h3>\n<p>Cole Crystal is an intern at The Federalist with interests in foreign affairs, religion, and society.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough acknowledges that the Democratic Party&#8217;s stance on abortion does not align with the majority of Americans. He stated that most Americans support abortion bans after 15-16 weeks, while Democrats are hesitant to commit to that. Scarborough also noted that Americans do not support abortion after 35 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":1944470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4310,5216,3884,3933,7189,25738,6503,3723],"class_list":["post-1944469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion","tag-admits","tag-americans","tag-dems","tag-joe","tag-late-term","tag-scarborough","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}