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Showing Original Post only (View all)WATCH: Bernie Sanders Says 'I Don't Know' When Asked About a Major Abortion Rights Issue [View all]
Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders may have run afoul of pro-choice voters when he was asked how he would deal with a major reproductive rights issue as president, and replied I dont know.
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Are you in all concerned, though, about this idea that people may try to worry about the sex of a child, or essentially, are those types of restrictions on abortions something youre open to? Todd asked.
That, I mean, thats a concern, Sanders said as Todd was asking, then answered, haltingly, Well, thats not a, I wouldnt use a restriction on, thats an issue that society has got to deal with, and it is of concern.
How would you deal with that in the law? Todd asked.
I dont know how, at this particular point, I would deal with it, but that is an issue that we really have got to deal with, Sanders replied.
Sanders seemed unprepared for the question, and perhaps unaware that reproductive rights organizations like NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood uniformly oppose laws restricting abortions on the basis Todd cites for a number of reasons.
Sex-selective abortion bans are deceptive laws that exploit racial stereotypes and result in doctors questioning their patients motives and restricting entire communities from accessing care, said Planned Parenthood of New York City in opposing one such law.
Watch the clip above, via NBC.
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-bernie-sanders-says-i-dont-know-when-asked-about-a-major-abortion-rights-issue/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden