RFK Jr. says, “I think a woman should be able to choose to have an abortion during the first three months of a child’s life.”
Robert F. Kennedy spent the weekend campaigning in Iowa. In an interview, he said that if elected, he would back a ban on abortions on three months or older pregnancies. His team later corrected the candidate’s comment.
NBC said that Kennedy said this during an interview on Sunday at the Iowa State Fair.
The Democratic presidential candidate said, “I think a woman should be able to decide whether or not to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy.”
He said yes when asked if he would sign a ban at 15 or 21 weeks.
“I think the state has an interest in protecting a child once it can live outside the womb,” Kennedy said. “I’m for freedom in medicine. People are free to choose what they want to do.”
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The competitor to President Biden had a different view on abortion than most of the Democratic Party. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court rejected Roe v. Wade. This meant the long-standing constitutional right to access abortion was no longer valid.
On Sunday night, Kennedy’s campaign team gave a message explaining the candidate’s view on abortion.
In a busy, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair today, an NBC reporter asked Mr. Kennedy a question, which he misunderstood, according to the statement. “Mr. Kennedy’s view on abortion is that it should always be up to the woman to decide. He disagrees with laws that make abortion illegal.
During the talk, Kennedy said he would not have voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a big win for the Democratic Party.
When asked about the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to fight climate change, he allegedly said, “They say this is fighting climate change, but it’s doing the opposite.”
During the interview, Kennedy agreed that former President Trump lost the 2020 election. When asked if he thought Trump tried to change the results, Kennedy allegedly said, “It seems like he was trying to overturn it.”
Kennedy is an environmental lawyer, a well-known critic of vaccines, and the son of what is probably the country’s most famous political family. It is unlikely that the Democratic Party will pick him as their top candidate for president.
The DNC is behind Biden as the president runs for a second four-year term in the White House. At its winter meeting in February, the DNC quickly passed a motion to “fully and completely support” the re-election of Biden and Harris.
The DNC has said there will be no primary debates between Biden and his two nationally known challengers, Marianne Williamson, a best-selling self-help author, and speaker, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and high-profile vaccine critic who is the son of one of the country’s most famous political families.
