Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign quickly went into cleanup mode Sunday night, walking back comments he had made earlier in the day suggesting he would support a federal abortion ban after three months of pregnancy.
“Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by a NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair,” his campaign said in a statement. “Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the woman’s right to choose. He does not support legislation banning abortion.”The reversal came just hours after Kennedy told a reporter that women should have the right to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy.
“Once a child is viable outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child,” he said, adding that in general he is for “medical freedom."When pressed on if he’d sign a three-month federal abortion ban, Kennedy said: “Yes, I would.”The comments prompted immediate praise from some prominent anti-abortion groups, including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which lauded Kennedy for driving such a “stark contrast to the Democratic Party’s radical stance.
Kennedy’s reversal comes as he seeks to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024, a long-shot bid as polling shows the president overcoming any challenger by at least 50 percentage points. Kennedy also attracted the ire of much of the Democratic Party for his views on vaccines and other controversial positions.
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