The suspiciously right-wing Democratic presidential candidate said he would support a federal cap on abortion after the first trimester, then backtracked.
Advertisementof the interview in which she repeatedly asks the question of whether he would support a federal ban after three months.
“I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life,” RFK Jr. said in that exchange on Sunday. When Vitali pressed him to specify whether that would be a federal restriction on abortion starting at 15 or 21 weeks, he replied, “Yes, three months.” RFK Jr.’s response: “Yes, I would.”
The candidate then goes onto discuss the fetal viability standard, which suggests that he may actually think fetuses are viable around 12 to 15 weeks and have no idea what he’s talking about.
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