Republican 2024 candidates do not take stand on Texas abortion case
WASHINGTON — Abortion has as soon as once more been thrown into the highlight within the 2024 presidential race, with the Texas Supreme Court docket ruling Monday in opposition to a mom of two from Dallas who sought to terminate her being pregnant after docs recognized her fetus with a deadly genetic situation.
Kate Cox left Texas to acquire the process this week after the state’s excessive court docket dominated her docs hadn’t met the authorized threshold for Cox to acquire an abortion.
After the Texas ruling, a number of Republican candidates took pains to sidestep the query of whether or not the justices made the proper name.
Requested whether or not she helps controverisal the ruling, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley informed reporters at a marketing campaign occasion Tuesday in New Hampshire that, whereas she has lengthy opposed abortion, she favors compassionate insurance policies.
“However that is precisely why I’ve mentioned you must present compassion and humanize the state of affairs,” Haley mentioned. “We do not need any girls to take a seat there and take care of a uncommon state of affairs and should ship a child in that form of circumstance any greater than we would like girls getting an abortion at 37, 38, 39 weeks.”
She later added, “on the finish of the day, that is about how can we save as many infants as attainable and assist as many mothers as attainable.” Haley beforehand mentioned she would have signed a six-week abortion ban as governor.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took an identical method, spotlighting his anti-abortion bona fides whereas calling for understanding.
When requested whether or not the legislation ought to pressure a girl to hold a fetus with a deadly situation to time period, DeSantis mentioned it was a “troublesome state of affairs.”
“We received to method these points with compassion as a result of these are very troublesome points,” he mentioned. “No one would need this to occur on anyone. In the event you’re in that state of affairs as a mom, that’s an extremely troublesome factor to should take care of.”
DeSantis mentioned that Florida’s abortion legislation, which bans the process after 15 weeks, comprises exemptions for rape, incest or medical emergencies. He beforehand mentioned he would assist a 15-week federal abortion ban.
Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy additionally prevented instantly addressing equity of the Texas ruling. He wrote on X, previously Twitter, that “the profitable path for the GOP on abortion isn’t to compromise on our rules, it’s to observe what we preach: codify sexual duty for males into the legislation.”
“If a girl carries a toddler to time period, she will be able to robotically make the person the legally accountable occasion for the kid if confirmed by paternity check,” he mentioned. “It’s not about males’s rights vs girls’s rights. It’s about *human* rights.”
Ramaswamy opposes a federal abortion ban, whereas supporting six-week bans for the states.
