Biden and Trump Clash Over Abortion in First Presidential Debate

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clashed over abortion in the CNN Presidential Debate, the first for the 2024 election, Thursday night.

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00:00Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy?

00:05I support Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters.

00:09First time is between the woman and the doctor.

00:12Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation.

00:16The third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.

00:21The idea that the politicians, that the founders wanted the politicians to be the ones making

00:26decisions about women's health is ridiculous.

00:29That's the last, no politician should be making that decision.

00:32A doctor should be making those decisions.

00:34That's how it should be run.

00:35That's what you're going to do.

00:36And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade.

00:39So that means he can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth

00:45because some states, Democrat run, take it after birth.

00:48Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, put the baby down, then we decide what to

00:53do with it.

00:54So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill

00:59the baby.

01:00Nobody wants that to happen, Democrat or Republican, nobody wants it to happen.

01:06That is simply not true.

01:08That Roe v. Wade does not provide for that.

01:11That's not the circumstance.

01:12Only if a woman's life is in danger, she's going to die.

01:15That's the only circumstance in which that can happen.

01:17But we are not for late term abortion, period, period, period.

01:21Under Roe v. Wade, you have late term abortion.

01:24You can do whatever you want.

01:25Depending on the state, you can do whatever you want.

01:28We don't think that's a good thing.

01:29We think it's a radical thing.

01:31We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans.

01:34For 51 years, that was the law.

01:3651 years, Constitutional Scholarship said it was the right way to go.

01:3951 years and it was taken away because this guy put very conservative members on the Supreme

01:44Court.

01:45He takes credit for taking it away.

01:47What's he going to do?

01:48What's he going to do?

01:50If the MAGA Republicans, he gets elected and the MAGA Republicans control the Congress

01:55and they pass a universal ban on abortion, period, across the board at six weeks or seven

02:01or eight or ten weeks, something very, very conservative.

02:03Is he going to sign that bill?

02:05I'll veto it.

02:06He'll sign it.

02:07Thank you.

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