Posted on 05/15/2024 9:11:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview posted on on Tuesday, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he’s changed his position on third-trimester abortions. This came after he said in an interview that he supports a woman's right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Kennedy made the remarks in an interview with comedians Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker this week.
"There's no way you can change my mind by calling me names or criticizing me or by marginalizing or vilifying me. But, you can always change my mind with facts,” Kennedy said. “If you […] show me I'm wrong about one of my presumptions, I'm gonna change my mind. And that's what happened with the abortion thing."
“My position on abortion was that it should always be a woman’s choice right up to the very end, and my assumption was that any abortion that occurs during that ninth month, in ninth month, you’re basically killing a child. My presumption was any abortion, no woman’s going to deliberately carry a child for nine months and then two days before it’s born, abort it. Who would do that? It can only be in instances where the mother’s life was at stake, or there was some other overwhelming medical issue involved and that it shouldn’t be up to a bureaucrat or the state to dictate the outcome of those kind of decisions,” Kennedy said.
“But, then I learned I was wrong, that there are actually a huge amount, comparatively, of elective abortions at that time. And so, my belief at that time is that at that time you have a wholly formed, viable child and the state has some interest in protecting that baby."
“My family is split about this, about right to life and right to choice,” Kennedy acknowledged. “I think the woman should always choose but in this case if it’s a fully formed baby, then the state does have some interest in protecting that life.”
Last week, Townhall covered how Kennedy said in an interview with Sage Steele published Wednesday that he supports a woman’s right to end her unborn child’s life up to the point of birth.
“Should there be a limit or are you saying all the way up to full term, a woman has a right to have an abortion?” Steele asked Kennedy in the interview.
Kennedy responded that he does not think any woman “wants” an abortion in the final weeks of pregnancy, but that the government should not be involved in protecting unborn life at that stage.
“I wouldn't leave it [abortion] to the states…My belief is we should leave it to the woman, we shouldn’t have government involved,” Kennedy said.
“Even if it’s full-term?” Steele pressed.
“Even if it’s full-term,” Kennedy responded.
BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. endorses abortions up to birth.
"Even if it's full term."https://t.co/2VFOBxzChb pic.twitter.com/1xkzmDkwKt— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) May 9, 2024
According to NBC News, Kennedy’s running mate Nicole Shanahan said, “My understanding with Bobby’s position is that, you know, every abortion is a tragedy, is a loss of life.”
“My understanding is that he absolutely believes in limits on abortion, and we’ve talked about this. I do not think, I don’t know where that came from,” she added in response to his remarks on abortion.
Really? Wow...wasn’t aware. What a train wreck. Keep him out of Trump’s ear.
Oy vey
There’s a soul at the point of conception until you can prove otherwise
It’s simple to any catholic Kennedy or otherwise
Ya twit
Here’s a deep-dive into the topic...
“Sean Hannity says faith is ‘stronger’ than ever after leaving Catholic Church over ‘institutionalized corruption’”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/sean-hannity-says-faith-is-stronger-than-ever-after-leaving-catholic-church-over-institutionalized-corruption.html
“ This is the year 2024, he is a 70 year old politician, he had never analyzed the abortion issue for himself and made firm his position on it”
Frik
In 6th grade on the playground at lunchtime at st pats in the suburbs of New York it was clear.
What a twit
Oh. Seek and find I did not mean to say you were but that RFK jr is a twit.
Hannity will be amazed to find out that once Catholic, once sacraments are instilled he will be judged as a Catholic on judgement day
I’ve never thought that Hannity was the brightest bulb. He’s glib, but with respect to most topics, he simply repeats standard talking points that any of dozens of other conservative talk hosts already said. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him utter any sort of original insight into anything.
Well if there are some good people today I can’t think of them.
Ya that sums it up for my point of view on him
His response has been “whatever the woman wants”, and when pressed, “sure, if that means until birth”.
He’s a #ing Rat, a better Rat perhaps, but a #ing Rat regardless.
Sounds as if he was a Cafeteria Catholic before leaving the faith entirely.
He’s obviously experienced upwards of a decade’s worth, at least (depending on whether he even ever was consistently in a state of grace—most Catholics like him don’t even know it’s a grave sin to miss Sunday mass without a serious reason), of intellect-darkening since then.
Catholics listening to/watching his radio and television programs should be careful to not necessarily follow his lead on issues of morality, humility, spirituality, etc. Who knows what it’ll take to feel this lapsed Catholic back into the fold.
This period will probably last for a very long time.
Exactly. Hear this, FR lapsed Catholics?
By chance I had been watching the 6 hours plus JFK Revisited dvd and there were maybe 45 minutes off and on of RFK Jr. Then I switched to real news and someone had an interview with him. He was willing to admit when he was wrong in the past sometimes and the fact he could learn and move on now.
Problem is, will he have underlying strength of one point of view we can depend upon or will he change again two or three times (like Biden’s pro, anti, pro Israel support).
I am against him for several of his positions and will not deviate from supporting Trump.
So... The ‘worm’ has turned.
THIS
“fully formed baby” is not a thing. From conception to death, no matter how old, the body is continuously changing form. Neither the rapidity nor the proportion of that change is relevant to its type.
What doesn’t change, and is there from conception, is that it is a living human being. With DNA from one male and one female human being what else could it be?
It is the same for all living beings. All will be a living being of the same type as its parents from the moment the DNA of its parents conjoins and the life processes begin.
There is no magic moment other than conception when a a pig becomes a pig or a duck becomes a duck or when a human becomes a human.
Exactly. At age 70 his protestations are unbelievable. He is exposed as a posing political animal.
Now someone should ask him if he knows what a woman is.
Stuck his finger in the wind, is all.
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