{"id":312383,"date":"2024-05-15T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312383"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:01:27","slug":"rfk-jr-full-term-abortion-biden-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rfk-jr-full-term-abortion-biden-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr walks back support for ‘full-term abortion’ while Biden camp portrays president as moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In April, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) announced<\/a> his plan to “make it easier for women to choose life.” Then on May 10, he said he opposes<\/a> any<\/em> restrictions on abortion, “even if it’s full term.” After this news spread far and wide, he has decided to retract that statement.<\/p>\n

The Biden campaign, when asked for its reaction to RFK Jr.’s original statements, told Fox News<\/a> that President Biden wants to return to Roe v. Wade<\/em>. “No, the president doesn’t support full-term abortions, as he’s made clear many times. He thinks Roe got it right,” senior campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt said, seemingly attempting to portray Biden as more reasonable on the issue of killing preborn children.<\/p>\n

And yet, the Democratic National Committee followed up with a statement of its own that seemed to paint RFK Jr. as not extreme enough<\/em> when it comes to abortion, saying he “can\u2019t be trusted to stand up for reproductive freedom,” according to Fox.<\/p>\n

It is important to note what the Biden campaign isn’t<\/em> saying: that Roe v. Wade<\/em> and its partner decision, Doe v. Bolton<\/em>, legalized abortion not just through the first trimester but throughout pregnancy. Doe<\/em> specified that a child could be killed at any time during pregnancy for “health” reasons, which even included reasons of financial and “familial” health.<\/p>\n

In other words, that very large loophole<\/em> essentially allowed for unrestricted abortion for any<\/em> given “health” reason.<\/p>\n

RFK Jr’s ‘personally pro-life’ position<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I have been probably one of the leading, arguably one of the leading people in this country for medical freedom and for bodily autonomy,” Kennedy\u00a0said on The Sage Steele Show<\/a> on May 10. “I think with abortion, every abortion is a tragedy. Many of them leave permanent trauma on the woman. But I think, ultimately, I don’t trust government to have jurisdiction over people’s bodies. I think we need to leave it to the woman, her pastor and to, you know, her spiritual advisors or physician, whatever, to make those decisions.”<\/p>\n

In reality, the government does, to some extent, exercise jurisdiction over people’s bodies when they pass laws against things like rape, homicide, or even pass measures like seat belt laws. Abortion is the homicide of an undelivered human being; our society prosecutes an assailant for the death of a preborn child unless the perpetrator is that child’s own mother.<\/em> Our society holds that in one case, the child has value (if wanted by his mother), yet in the other case, the child has no value (because he is unwanted by his mother).<\/p>\n

Our society is highly inconsistent in these matters, when it labels the killing of a preborn child as a matter of “privacy” for that child’s mother to decide \u2014 however, after that child is born, our society would not allow his family to abuse him or starve him to death without repercussions under the banner of “privacy.” Instead, we only allow a child to be legally starved of nutrients if he or she has not yet exited the womb.<\/p>\n