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Beto O'Rourke: Late-term Abortions Are 'About Women Making Their Own Decisions About Their Own Body'
Townhall.com ^ | March 26, 2019 | Salena Zito

Posted on 03/26/2019 3:28:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Beto O'Rourke has refused to rule out abortions more than six months into a pregnancy.

Asked by the Washington Examiner about his stance on third-trimester abortions, O'Rourke, who's battling with a crowded field of Democrats vying for the chance to unseat President Trump in 2020, said it is a woman's decision, in consultation with her doctor.

"Listen, I think those decisions are best left to a woman and her doctor," he said. "I know better than to assume anything about a woman's decision, an incredibly difficult decision, when it comes to her reproductive rights."

He added: "Roe v. Wade, though it is being tested unlike any other time, is still the law of the land. It must be upheld, and we must ensure that when we are talking about universal health care, we are also talking about women's health care. And when we are talking about women's health care, we are talking about women making their own decisions about their own body."

O'Rourke was being asked to clarify comments he made in Cleveland the night before in response to a woman asking him whether he supports third-trimester abortions. The woman noted that in those cases, the fetus might be viable outside of the womb, and if there were an emergency, doctors could perform a cesarean section.

He answered the woman's question quickly, not addressing the root of the inquiry but simply saying that he supports a woman's right to an abortion.

He told her: "So, the question is about abortion and reproductive rights. And my answer to you is that should be a decision that the woman makes. I trust her."

While 6 in 10 Americans broadly support abortion rights for the first trimester, a Gallup poll from last June said that number drops to 13 percent in the final three months of a pregnancy.

O'Rourke, 46, a former Texas congressman who announced his presidential run March 14, said it was important to visit Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio right out of the gate, an implicit criticism of defeated 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who neglected the Rust Belt and lost all four states.

"The places that I visited are really important to me. I want to make sure that we are not writing anyone off, and just as importantly, I want to make sure we are not taking anyone for granted," he said. "When we don't show up, we get what we deserve. When we don't show up, we fail to learn from those we fail to serve."

Clinton was widely panned for ignoring Wisconsin and Michigan until the end of the campaign.

"If we have any hope of winning, and if we have any prospect of delivering, we have to first show up with the humility of acknowledging that," O'Rourke said as he walked along Pollock Road with 20 members of the Penn State College Democrats.

O'Rourke spent a half-hour with the student activists at the Nittany Lion statue, taking questions about college tuition and taking photos with the group.

Donning a white Penn State hat, O'Rourke even learned the finer details of the iconic "We are ... Penn State!" chant that typically echoes out of Beaver Stadium during football season.

O'Rourke represented El Paso, Texas, for six years in the House before challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for his Senate seat in 2018. Despite the long odds -- the last Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Texas was Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, when he won re-election for a fourth term -- he made it a race, coming within 2.6 percentage points of Cruz.

Of the candidates who have announced or are considering a run, O'Rourke is the youngest. On March 18, he announced that his campaign brought in $6.1 million in the first 24 hours, out-raising everyone in the field, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who hit $6 million in his first 24 hours.

He broke the fundraising record books last year in Texas, raising over $80 million, more than twice as much as Cruz did.

Charlie Gerow, a Pennsylvania-based Republican media consultant, said O'Rourke was less quixotic than his Democratic critics claim and his Republican rivals wish he was. Gerow said, "Look, he is charismatic in a presidential field vying to show their presidential timber."

O'Rourke was smart to bookend Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania between the traditional early states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Gerow said: "The Rust Belt is going to determine who the next president is and this is ground zero. Right now he is the talk of the town and he has pushed the other Democrats off the front page."

But he added that the only candidate to ever knock everyone off the front pages and stay there for four years is Trump: "Whether O'Rourke can go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump is another story."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: abortion; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; proaborts; prolife
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1 posted on 03/26/2019 3:28:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Beto O'Rourke - science denier.

(The body inside your body is not your body)

2 posted on 03/26/2019 3:31:15 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Kaslin

No, it is about murder.


3 posted on 03/26/2019 3:44:30 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Kaslin

Just wow.


4 posted on 03/26/2019 3:59:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

https://babylonbee.com/news/beto-the-decision-to-run-someone-over-should-be-between-a-driver-and-his-car


5 posted on 03/26/2019 4:04:32 AM PDT by pookie18
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To: Kaslin

The demoncrat party is the party of death and evil.


6 posted on 03/26/2019 4:07:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Kaslin

... and the body that is living inside their bodies.

There, I finished it for you, Beeto.


7 posted on 03/26/2019 4:08:06 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Kaslin

WOW what a revelation, where di he here that? what an intellectual power house.


8 posted on 03/26/2019 4:12:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Reno89519

No, because HER body is NOT the only BODY involved.

There’s a tiny baby body, Bozo.


9 posted on 03/26/2019 4:13:50 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Kaslin

The poor defenseless baby doesn’t get to make choices about its body.


10 posted on 03/26/2019 4:16:07 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Kaslin

Post birth abortions.


11 posted on 03/26/2019 4:20:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Psalm 73

The body outside of your body is not your body.


12 posted on 03/26/2019 4:21:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Kaslin

It’s about the life of an innocent baby and the doctor who was given a license to kill it.


13 posted on 03/26/2019 4:27:44 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Kaslin

Short timer...


14 posted on 03/26/2019 4:28:06 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Kaslin
Irish Rob either lacks the 'nads to opine about what today's Democrat movers and shakers have already been saying (post-delivery abortions are "about women making unilateral decisions about someone else's very existence"), or he's playing what passes for a "centrist" in the donkey coven.

...Charlie Gerow, a Pennsylvania-based Republican media consultant...

Anyone know if Charlie is as good a Republican consultant as someone like - for instance - as Steve Schmid... or any of NoName's 2008 consultants?

15 posted on 03/26/2019 4:31:06 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Beatoff would support a woman’s right to choose up to kindergarten? No need to rush such an important decision


16 posted on 03/26/2019 4:37:18 AM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Kaslin

Abortionist politicians are about “Unborn babies can’t vote.”


17 posted on 03/26/2019 4:59:55 AM PDT by djpg
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To: Kaslin

If a husband decides to kill his wife is that his decision?


18 posted on 03/26/2019 5:08:37 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Kaslin
This is good news.

If it's HER body, then men should NEVER have to pay child support!

19 posted on 03/26/2019 5:11:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Kaslin

Late term abortions are about murdering babies, Irish Bob.

Don’t you dare attempt to tell me something is not what it is, you lying snake.


20 posted on 03/26/2019 5:14:39 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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