If Carly Fiorina is tired of being told that her pro-life views make her anti-woman, she didn’t show it Wednesday while appearing on ABC’s “The View.” Challenged about her beliefs by the show’s abortion supporting hosts, Fiorina crafted a clever response.
Whoopi Goldberg, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman, asked Fiorina how she would approach the abortion issue as president. “Are you going to run as a person who’s going to govern for everyone, or are you running on your Christian beliefs?” Goldberg asked.
Goldberg’s questions unfairly implied that policy motivated by faith could not benefit everyone. But the Republican presidential candidate did not take the bait, justifying her stance with science instead of religion. While acknowledging that she and the hosts “do not all agree” on abortion, Fiorina insisted that science is bolstering the pro-life view. “The DNA in a zygote is the same as the DNA the day you die,” she said Tuesday.
Fiorina believes the two sides in the abortion debate can find common ground in banning late-term abortions. “The majority of women, the majority of young people, the majority of Americans now think that late-term abortion for any reason at all is a problem,” Fiorina said. “So what I say is, let’s go find that common ground.”
The hosts did not seem to believe that most people oppose late-term abortions. But a November 2014 Quinnipiac poll of more almost 900 women found that 59 percent support banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. An additional 8 percent want an all-out ban. Goldberg and her fellow hosts should have done their research before dismissing Fiorina’s point.
Emily Leayman is an intern at the Washington Examiner
