Posted on 05/15/2024 9:11:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview posted on on Tuesday, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he’s changed his position on third-trimester abortions. This came after he said in an interview that he supports a woman's right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Kennedy made the remarks in an interview with comedians Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker this week.
"There's no way you can change my mind by calling me names or criticizing me or by marginalizing or vilifying me. But, you can always change my mind with facts,” Kennedy said. “If you […] show me I'm wrong about one of my presumptions, I'm gonna change my mind. And that's what happened with the abortion thing."
“My position on abortion was that it should always be a woman’s choice right up to the very end, and my assumption was that any abortion that occurs during that ninth month, in ninth month, you’re basically killing a child. My presumption was any abortion, no woman’s going to deliberately carry a child for nine months and then two days before it’s born, abort it. Who would do that? It can only be in instances where the mother’s life was at stake, or there was some other overwhelming medical issue involved and that it shouldn’t be up to a bureaucrat or the state to dictate the outcome of those kind of decisions,” Kennedy said.
“But, then I learned I was wrong, that there are actually a huge amount, comparatively, of elective abortions at that time. And so, my belief at that time is that at that time you have a wholly formed, viable child and the state has some interest in protecting that baby."
“My family is split about this, about right to life and right to choice,” Kennedy acknowledged. “I think the woman should always choose but in this case if it’s a fully formed baby, then the state does have some interest in protecting that life.”
Last week, Townhall covered how Kennedy said in an interview with Sage Steele published Wednesday that he supports a woman’s right to end her unborn child’s life up to the point of birth.
“Should there be a limit or are you saying all the way up to full term, a woman has a right to have an abortion?” Steele asked Kennedy in the interview.
Kennedy responded that he does not think any woman “wants” an abortion in the final weeks of pregnancy, but that the government should not be involved in protecting unborn life at that stage.
“I wouldn't leave it [abortion] to the states…My belief is we should leave it to the woman, we shouldn’t have government involved,” Kennedy said.
“Even if it’s full-term?” Steele pressed.
“Even if it’s full-term,” Kennedy responded.
BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. endorses abortions up to birth.
"Even if it's full term."https://t.co/2VFOBxzChb pic.twitter.com/1xkzmDkwKt— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) May 9, 2024
According to NBC News, Kennedy’s running mate Nicole Shanahan said, “My understanding with Bobby’s position is that, you know, every abortion is a tragedy, is a loss of life.”
“My understanding is that he absolutely believes in limits on abortion, and we’ve talked about this. I do not think, I don’t know where that came from,” she added in response to his remarks on abortion.
This is the year 2024, he is a 70 year old politician, he had never analyzed the abortion issue for himself and made firm his position on it?
He’s never ran for office and never had to deal with this issue at all.
Every single person aspiring for office will have to take a stance on this and whatever stance one takes, there will be a huge segment of the population who will be UNHAPPY with it.
AKA i want to win and I’ll say what I need to.
He is lying.
Once a person acquiesces to the killing of pre born human life, then they are capable of rationalizing any moral transgression or abomination. Such people can never be trusted in any matter.
Do you think most politicians actually analyze the facts of any issue?
I’d like to believe he’s sincere, but it’s very hard. Not just because of him personally, but anybody who’s running to be elected.
I don’t get when politicians like him say it’s It’s a woman’s decision and the government should stay out of it. As soon as the affordable Care act was passed, it’s part of the government’s business.
“””””He’s never ran for office and never had to deal with this issue at all.”””””
Abortion is one of those moral issues that every individual has had to decide their position for their own morality and also choose their position in every vote they have made in their adult life, and he has lived and voted through half a century of the abortion wars, he has dealt with it.
It's actually pretty simple.
If someone murders a pregnant woman, even a Soros prosecutor will charge for TWO murders. Slam dunk.
BUT - where there's a will, there's a way, on the other side of the fence. You're not going to stop someone who has 100% possession, if the will is there.
Hannity (ostensibly Catholic) insists with respect to babies conceived as a result of rape or incest, it be left to the mother to decide.
Not that you shouldn’t, but you part company with Hannity on that, right?
Isn’t that Trump’s (non-Catholic) position too?
No, not really, there are some good people in politics but most of them are amoral and self serving with a basic outline of general beliefs that decide which party they go to.
Sounds like another comment to try to draw more votes from Trump.
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RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants To Jail His Political Opponents https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206573/posts
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509601/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr. Blames Reagan For 9/11 [for rolling back CAFE standards in 1986] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855875/posts
RFK Jr. spreads blame for environmental woes in New Bedford speech https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913559/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2479527/posts
RFK, Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243628/posts
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187998/posts
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Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120692/posts
RFK Jr. Slams “Right-Wing Control of American Media” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967445/posts
RFK Jr: Right-Wing Controls American Media, Fox News Has Divided US to a Point not Seen Since Civil War https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967311/posts
RFK jr: Sen. Inhofe is a “Call Girl” for Big Oil (But it’s OK to say it, he’s a Democrat after all) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855976/posts
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808401/posts
RFK Jr. Claims Air America Was More Popular Than Conservative Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740193/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party (Video) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606809/posts
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446226/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr.: right-wing hosts spread hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271218/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Innocent ACORN Defrauded by ACORN Workers https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109548/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘There Is No Liberal Media’(video barf!) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021728/posts
Kennedy Calls Skeptical Politicians ‘Traitors’ and ‘Corporate Toadies’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864440/posts
RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864945/posts
Video: Stossel Takes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On For Traitor Remark https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864510/posts
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863207/posts
RFK (Robberbaron F. Kennedy) Jr. vs. Mike Gallagher on Energy Independence https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033812/posts
The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644744/posts
RFK Jr.: Bush, Barbour to Blame for Katrina https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473838/posts
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RFK Jr says Donald Trump has ‘discredited the American experiment’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903551/Robert-Kennedy-Jr-says-Donald-Trump-discredited-American-experiment.html
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Its only being done to get more voters.
“Hannity (ostensibly Catholic) “
No, I recall Hannity disavowing Catholicism and saying that he considered himself a non-denominational Christian.
Last thing to finish developing is the lungs. Last few weeks. Of course children born prematurely to that extent, and who present with breathing issues, overwhelmingly survive and thrive. But, every one of the nine months, that is, including the ninth, has developmental significance. Such that RFK could (arguably only weakly, or somewhat arbitrarily) support or argue for his current position.
I never paid any attention to the guy so I don’t know a lot about him but my impression is that he is an individual full of fluff and little substance, very flaky and somewhat unstable, inconsistent, uncentered.
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