{"id":202646,"date":"2019-05-21T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202646"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:08:53","slug":"pete-buttigieg-others-minimize-late-term-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pete-buttigieg-others-minimize-late-term-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pete Buttigieg and others shouldn’t minimize the 1.3% of late-term abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates thus far have all taken a position supporting abortion without limit. At the federal level, abortion is legal<\/a> in the United States up to nine months of pregnancy. While some states have enacted prohibitions on abortion \u2014 including restricting the procedure after a certain point in pregnancy \u2014 other states permit abortions without exception.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Pete Buttigieg called abortion a “national right” and an “American freedom” during the recent Fox News’ Presidential Town hall<\/a>. Host Chris Wallace asked Buttigieg, “[D]o you believe – at any point in pregnancy – whether it’s at six weeks or eight weeks or 24 weeks or whenever – that there should be any limit on a woman’s right to have an abortion?”<\/p>\n

Buttigieg responded, “I trust women to draw the line when it’s their own bodies.” He then proceeded to downplay the number of late-term abortions done annually, first calling them “hypothetical,” and then when Wallace corrected him, downplaying and inaccurately representing the percentage of late-term abortions among all abortions in the United States.<\/p>\n