Harris Refuses To Say If She Supports Abortion Up To Birth

Vice President Kamala Harris’ 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.

“ABC News Live Prime” 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.

Harris, who has a history of dodging that question, once again obfuscated by claiming that she “absolutely supports reinstating the protections of Roe v Wade.”

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 “Women’s Health Protection Act” which would codify abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

Nor did Davis mention that, in addition to cosponsoring the original version of that legislation, Harris also voted against protections for babies born alive after botched abortions.

Former President Donald Trump also pressed Harris over her radical views about life in the womb.

“Will she allow abortion in the eighth month? Ninth month? Seventh month?” Trump asked of his opponent.

The vice president, however, refused to provide a direct answer to his question.

“Oh come on,” Harris scoffed.

“Would you do that? Why don’t you ask her that question?” he asked the moderators. “Because under Roe. v. Wade, you could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth.”

Harris likely knows most Americans 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’s position and the lifesaving laws in pro-life states.

The Democrat first claimed that several states have “Trump abortion bans” that “make it criminal for a doctor or nurse to provide health care,” threaten women with prison time, and “make no exception, even for rape or incest.”

“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’s bleeding out in a car in the parking lot. She didn’t want that. Her husband didn’t want that. A 12 or 13-year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term, they don’t want that,” Harris said.

Democrats like Harris have falsely claimed for years that the lifesaving laws designed to protect thousands of innocents every year from elective abortions prevent women suffering from ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages from receiving the care they need.

The states that limit when life in the womb can be ended do not criminalize treatments for spontaneous loss or complications. In fact, every single pro-life law on the books includes exceptions for abortion when it is deemed necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. 

Shortly after that, Harris claimed Trump would sign a national abortion ban and hire a national “abortion monitor monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages.”

The Republican’s 2024 abortion platform, however, explicitly states decisions about ending life in the womb should be left “up to the states” and mentions nothing about crowning a national pro-life coordinator. The GOP presidential nominee has also sworn that he would not sign federal legislation curbing abortion.

Harris also asserted that “nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.”

“That is not happening and it’s insulting to the women of America,” Harris claimed.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that thousands of abortions are performed after 21 weeks gestation. The CDC’s findings do not include reporting from at least four abortion-friendly states, California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey which suggests the number of late-term abortions in the U.S. is likely much higher.

In an attempt to link Democrats’ abortion goals with in vitro fertilization, Harris claimed that “under Donald Trump’s abortion bans, couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatment.” Yet Trump has openly touted IVF and even promised that he would make taxpayers fund it.

Davis was quick to tell Trump, who lamented Democrats’ unlimited abortion-for-all agenda, that there is “no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born” despite evidence that it happened in Harris’ own running mate’s state. Trump even pointed out that former Virginia 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.

Despite her fake “fact check” of Trump, Havis never moved to correct Harris. Instead, the vice president was allowed to continue with her abortion deceptions unchecked.

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.