{"id":218144,"date":"2020-02-07T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218144"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:57:46","slug":"pete-buttigieg-backlash-abortion-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pete-buttigieg-backlash-abortion-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg faces backlash for endorsing abortion up to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than a week after telling Democrats for Life’s Kristen Day that pro-lifers are not welcomed in his party<\/a>, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared on “The View,” where he indicated his support for late-term abortion.<\/p>\n

Co-host Meghan McCain\u00a0asked Buttigieg where he would draw the line on late-term abortion<\/a>. Buttigieg replied<\/a>,\u00a0“My point is that it shouldn’t be up to a government official to draw the line. It should be up to the woman who’s confronted with the choice.”<\/p>\n

McCain then asked Buttigieg what he thought of infanticide — when a child’s life is ended outside the womb just after birth. “What if a woman wanted to invoke infanticide after a baby was born — you’d be comfortable with that?” she asked.<\/p>\n

Buttigieg answered, “We’re talking about families that may have picked out a name — may be\u00a0assembling a crib — and they learn something excruciating and are faced with this terrible choice — and I don’t know what to tell them morally about what they should do. I just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally isn’t going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it in a certain way.”<\/p>\n