In a revealing, recent dust-up on The View, Democrat presidential contender Pete Buttigieg defended his radical pro-abortion views by misleading the public on why women abort their babies late-term.
Sparring with Meghan McCain, Buttigieg claimed that the only reason women get late-term abortions is because of a fetal diagnosis for their baby.
“If this is a late-term situation, then by definition, it’s one where the woman was expecting to carry the pregnancy to term. Then she gets, perhaps, the most devastating news of her life. We’re talking about families that may have picked out a name, and they learn something excruciating and are faced with this terrible choice,” Buttigieg asserted.
Not so. In a study from 2013, researchers interviewed 272 women who had gotten late-term abortions. The study determined the top five reasons behind their decisions, and fetal diagnosis for the baby wasn’t one of them. In fact, each was related to the woman’s feeling that her present situation wasn’t conducive to raising a child.
Moreover, in a 2018 report for the Congressional Research Service, Dr. Diana Foster of the University of California, San Francisco, stated that “abortions for fetal anomalies make up a small minority of later abortions.”
So Buttigieg’s attempted justification of late-term abortion as a medical requirement simply doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Trust me, I’d know. I was born 11 weeks premature, at 29 weeks gestation, weighing just 2 pounds and 15 ounces.
On the day of my birth, if my mother had gone to an abortion clinic instead of a hospital, Buttigieg would have been fine with my mother aborting me rather than choosing life. Situations like this happen on a daily basis across the United States. According to the Center for Disease Control, nearly 13,000 women abort their babies late-term every year.
After Buttigieg explained his views, McCain responded, “This is going to hurt you in the middle of the country with people like me. And quite frankly, that answer is just as radical as I thought it was.”
Millions of Americans, including Democrats, agree with McCain.
According to Gallup, 29% of Democrats identify as pro-life, and only 39% of Democrats take Buttigieg’s position that abortion should be legal under any circumstance.
Take professor Charles Camosy, for example. He is pro-life Democrat who spent much of his life working on getting members of his party elected to office. But no more. Just yesterday, he disclosed in the New York Post that he has given up supporting Democrats, citing Buttigieg’s abortion extremism as the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”
For the millions of pro-life Democrats who think like Professor Camosy, Mayor Pete’s position may cause many of them to do the unthinkable — protect the unborn by voting to reelect a pro-life president: President Trump.
Zachary Mettler is a staff writer for the Daily Citizen at Focus on the Family.
