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Sunday, July 16th, 2023

Pence says abortion should be banned for nonviable pregnancies

Author:     NICK ROBERTSON
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     07/15/23 | 4:07 PM ET
 Link: Pence says abortion should be banned for nonviable pregnancies
Stephan:  

To be honest I have never been able to decide whether Mike Pence just isn’t very bright, or whether he has just adopted Trumpian lying as his campaign strategy. His statement reveals he certainly knows nothing about medicine. As the article describes he is proposing that women carry a non-viable fetus to term, whatever the risk to their own health, because he heard a story about a woman who had a non-viable fetus that ultimately ended as a happy viable birth. I don’t know whether that is just a lie, or a 1 in 10,000 event. Either way what it is saying to women is you don’t control your own body, the state does, and your doctor can’t make a decision as to what is happening with your pregnancy and how to treat it. It is idiotic but that is the Republican Party’s position. I do not see how any woman can vote for a Republican, and yet I know millions will.

MAGAt Republican presidential candidate Credit: BBC

Former Vice President Mike Pence said abortions in the case of nonviable pregnancies should be banned, taking a hard stance on abortion policy, which has served as an emphasis of his campaign.

“I’m pro-life. I don’t apologize for it,” Pence said in a recent interview. “I just have heard so many stories over the years of courageous women and families who were told that their unborn child would not go to term or would not survive. And then they had a healthy pregnancy and a healthy delivery.”

Pence is the only GOP presidential candidate to publicly support a national abortion ban at six weeks. One in three women confirm their pregnancies past the six-week mark, according to a November 2021 study published in the journal Contraception. He has also supported bans on birth control and pushed a 15-week abortion ban as a bare minimum.

“I want to always err on the side of life,” he said. “I would hold that view in these matters because … I honestly believe that we got this extraordinary opportunity in the country today to restore the sanctity of life to the center of […]

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