{"id":2339475,"date":"2024-09-10T23:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-refuses-to-say-if-she-supports-abortion-up-to-birth\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:14:27","slug":"harris-refuses-to-say-if-she-supports-abortion-up-to-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-refuses-to-say-if-she-supports-abortion-up-to-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Refuses To Say If She Supports Abortion Up To Birth"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fharris-refuses-to-say-if-she-supports-abortion-up-to-birth%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=2339475&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--><p>During her first 2024 \u2063presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris displayed what critics\u2063 call &#8220;abortion\u200d extremism,&#8221; particularly \u200bby sidestepping questions about her stance on late-term abortions. When asked by anchor Linsey Davis whether she supports any restrictions on abortion, Harris avoided a direct answer, stating her support for reinstating Roe\u2063 v. Wade protections, despite having previously supported the Women&#8217;s Health \u200bProtection Act that \u2062would codify abortion access up to\u2064 nine months. Former President Donald Trump challenged Harris\u200c on her views, questioning her on late abortions, to which she did not respond directly.\u2064 Harris also criticized state-level abortion laws, claiming they endanger women&#8217;s health and \u200care overly restrictive, particularly in cases like miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. However, pro-life laws include exceptions for such situations. Additionally, Harris made unfounded claims about Trump&#8217;s \u200cplatform on abortion, suggesting he would impose a national abortion ban, \u200dcontrary to his\u2064 stated belief that abortion decisions should \u2063be left to the states. Harris&#8217;s assertions\u2064 about the prevalence of late-term abortions in America were countered by data from the CDC, which indicates thousands of abortions after 21 weeks, suggesting the issue is more complex than she portrayed. \u200dHarris further linked abortion access to in \u2063vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments, alleging that restrictions hinder couples trying to conceive, a claim without substantial backing. the debate highlighted stark \u200ddifferences in abortion \u2063perspectives between the two candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; abortion extremism was on full display during her first 2024 presidential debate on Tuesday night when she refused to say whether she supports ending life in the womb through all nine months of pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ABC News Live Prime&rdquo; anchor Linsey Davis asked Harris in the first 20 minutes of the faceoff on the National Constitution Center stage whether she supports any restrictions on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/23\/no-matter-how-hard-she-tries-kamala-harris-cant-hide-her-history-of-abortion-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has a history of dodging that question<\/a>, once again obfuscated by claiming that she &ldquo;absolutely supports reinstating the protections of <em>Roe v Wade<\/em>.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Davis made no move to fact-check or ask Harris for clarification, even though the vice president had pledged moments before to sign legislation such as the ill-named &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3755\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Women&rsquo;s Health Protection Act&rdquo;<\/a> which would <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/11\/bipartisan-majority-rejects-radical-abortion-bill-pushed-by-senate-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">codify abortion<\/a>&nbsp;through all nine months of pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>Nor did Davis mention that, in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-bill\/510\/cosponsors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cosponsoring<\/a>&nbsp;the original version of that legislation,&nbsp;Harris&nbsp;also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1162\/vote_116_2_00058.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted against<\/a>&nbsp;protections for <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> after botched abortions.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump also pressed Harris over her radical views about life in the womb. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Will she allow abortion in the eighth month? Ninth month? Seventh month?&rdquo; Trump asked of his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president, however, refused to provide a direct answer to his question. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh come on,&rdquo; Harris scoffed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Would you do that? Why don&rsquo;t you ask her that question?&rdquo; he asked the moderators. &ldquo;Because under <em>Roe. v. Wade<\/em>, you could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris likely knows <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/14\/associated-press-poll-is-corporate-medias-latest-language-twisting-exercise-in-advancing-abortion-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most Americans<\/a>&nbsp;oppose the unlimited abortion-for-all agenda touted by her and her party, which is why she tried to avoid the question. She was less shy, however, when it came to lying to Americans about Trump&rsquo;s position and the lifesaving laws in pro-life states.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat first claimed that several states have &ldquo;Trump abortion bans&rdquo; that &ldquo;make it criminal for a doctor or nurse to provide health care,&rdquo; threaten women with prison time, and &ldquo;make no exception, even for rape or incest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You want to talk about this is what people wanted? Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room, because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail and she&rsquo;s bleeding out in a car in the parking lot. She didn&rsquo;t want that. Her husband didn&rsquo;t want that. A 12 or 13-year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term, they don&rsquo;t want that,&rdquo; Harris said. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats like Harris have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/29\/no-dobbs-doesnt-stop-doctors-from-treating-ectopic-pregnancies-or-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely claimed<\/a> for years&nbsp;that the lifesaving laws&nbsp;designed to protect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/04\/two-years-later-the-texas-heartbeat-act-has-saved-thousands-of-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands of innocents<\/a>&nbsp;every year from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/fact-sheet-reasons-for-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elective abortions<\/a>&nbsp;prevent women suffering from ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages from receiving the care they need. <\/p>\n<p>The states that limit when life in the womb can be ended do not criminalize treatments for spontaneous loss or complications. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/pro-life-laws-protect-mom-and-baby-pregnant-womens-lives-are-protected-in-all-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">every<\/a> single pro-life law on the books includes exceptions for abortion when it is deemed necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that, Harris claimed Trump would sign a national abortion ban and hire a national &ldquo;abortion monitor monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/112235238031827342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 abortion platform<\/a>, however,&nbsp;explicitly states decisions about ending life in the womb should be left &ldquo;up to the states&rdquo; and mentions nothing about crowning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-harris-said-about-abortion-at-the-dnc-was-a-lie\/\" title=\"Everything Harris Said About Abortion At The DNC Was A Lie\">national pro-life coordinator<\/a>. The GOP presidential nominee has also sworn that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/10\/politics\/trump-says-he-wouldnt-sign-federal-abortion-ban\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he would not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tracking-kamalas-biggest-and-baddest-lies-20-and-counting\/\" title=\"Tracking Kamala\u2019s Biggest And Baddest Lies: 20 And Counting\">sign federal legislation curbing abortion<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris also asserted that &ldquo;nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is not happening and it&rsquo;s insulting to the women of America,&rdquo; Harris claimed. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductive-health\/data-statistics\/abortion-surveillance-findings-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands of abortions<\/a>&nbsp;are performed after 21 weeks gestation. The CDC&rsquo;s findings do not include reporting from at least four abortion-friendly states,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/ss\/ss7209a1.htm?s_cid=ss7209a1_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey<\/a> which suggests the number of late-term abortions in the U.S. is likely much higher.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to link Democrats&rsquo; abortion goals with in vitro fertilization, Harris claimed that &ldquo;under Donald Trump&rsquo;s abortion bans, couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatment.&rdquo; Yet Trump has openly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/08\/trumps-mixed-messaging-on-abortion-and-ivf-plays-right-into-democrats-electoral-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touted IVF<\/a> and even promised that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/30\/trump-announced-taxpayer-funded-ivf-plan-because-pro-lifers-failed-to-step-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he would make taxpayers fund it. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Davis was quick to tell Trump, who lamented Democrats&rsquo; unlimited abortion-for-all agenda, that there is &ldquo;no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it&rsquo;s born&rdquo; despite evidence that it happened in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1833678822912536688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harris&rsquo; own running mate&rsquo;s state<\/a>. Trump even pointed out that former Virginia&nbsp;Gov. Ralph Northam publicly noted an infant born alive after a botched abortion in his state would only be given care like resuscitation if the family desired it.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FORMER VA GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: &#8220;The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable&hellip; Then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DXB1SsOmEh\">pic.twitter.com\/DXB1SsOmEh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1833676555534409990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite her fake &ldquo;fact check&rdquo; of Trump, Havis never moved to correct Harris. Instead, the vice president was allowed to continue with her abortion deceptions unchecked.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During her initial 2024 presidential debate on Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris showcased her extreme stance on abortion by declining to clarify whether she endorses terminating pregnancies at any point during the nine months. In the early moments of the debate, &#8220;ABC News Live Prime&#8221; anchor Linsey Davis inquired if Harris supports any restrictions on abortion. Once again evading a direct answer, Harris stated that she &#8220;absolutely supports reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade.&#8221; Davis did not challenge or seek further clarification from Harris, despite her earlier commitment to sign legislation like the misleadingly named &#8220;Women\u2019s Health Protection Act,&#8221; which would allow abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Additionally, Davis failed to mention that Harris had previously co-sponsored this legislation and voted against measures protecting infants born alive after failed abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump also confronted Harris about her radical views regarding fetal life, asking if she would permit abortions in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month. However, she sidestepped his question and dismissed it with a scoff. Trump pointed out that under Roe v. Wade&#8217;s framework, late-term abortions were permissible.<\/p>\n<p>Harris likely understands that many Americans oppose her party&#8217;s unrestricted abortion agenda; hence her reluctance to address these questions directly. She was more forthcoming when misrepresenting Trump&#8217;s position and pro-life laws in various states.<\/p>\n<p>Harris claimed that certain states have &#8220;Trump abortion bans&#8221; making it illegal for healthcare providers to offer necessary care and threatening women with imprisonment without exceptions for rape or incest cases. She painted a grim picture of pregnant women suffering due to these laws while falsely asserting they hinder treatment for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies\u2014claims contradicted by pro-life laws which include exceptions for saving a woman&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the debate, Harris alleged Trump would impose a national abortion ban and appoint an \u201cabortion monitor\u201d overseeing pregnancies\u2014a claim unsupported by Trump&#8217;s actual platform which advocates leaving such decisions up to individual states without federal intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Harris also asserted there are no instances where women carrying pregnancies are seeking abortions; however, data from the CDC indicates thousands of late-term abortions occur after 21 weeks gestation\u2014numbers likely higher given incomplete reporting from several states known for their lenient abortion policies.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to connect Democrats&#8217; reproductive goals with IVF access issues under Trump&#8217;s policies\u2014despite his support for IVF funding\u2014Harris made claims about couples being denied treatment due to supposed bans.<\/p>\n<p>Davis quickly countered Trump\u2019s concerns over Democrats\u2019 expansive abortion policies by stating no state allows infanticide post-birth; however, evidence exists suggesting otherwise within Virginia during Ralph Northam&#8217;s governorship when he discussed care options for infants born alive after botched procedures based on parental wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite attempts at fact-checking from Davis regarding Trump&#8217;s statements about post-birth scenarios linked back to Northam\u2019s comments in Virginia\u2014the vice president continued unchallenged with misleading assertions surrounding abortion policy throughout the debate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2339476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53624364087_e980e55987_o-scaled-e1726015980164.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4310,6733,4021],"class_list":["post-2339475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion","tag-controversy","tag-harris"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53624364087_e980e55987_o-scaled-e1726015980164.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339475","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}