Carly Fiorina wants to paint Democrats as the real abortion extremists.
In a lengthy interview on the subject with Breitbart, the former HP exec and California Senate candidate claimed that “the vast majority” of Americans disagree with Democrats’ hard-line positions on abortion:
[The Democrats’] policy, which I point out to men and women and women all the time, their policy really is what Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said when I ran against her in 2010: life is a life when it leaves the hospital. And the vast majority of Americans do not agree with that.
But I think the Democrats have a sense that if they start to give on that issue and be reasonable, then they’ve opened up the debate about well, when is it a life? And I think they’re afraid to have that debate. Meanwhile, I think from my point of view, we need to take common ground where we can find it, because that’s progress.
“I think the longer this conversation goes on,” she said, “the more scientific evidence is presented, the more people begin to realize that, no, the Democrats really have the extreme position here.”
Fiorina recounted her personal story of how she came to be passionately pro-life after taking her best friend to get an abortion.
One of the things that struck me as so sad is, she was never really encouraged to even evaluate that choice. It was sad, because I think she would have been a less tortured woman later, had she thought carefully about the choice that [she was making].
She also married a man whose mother had been pressured to abort him. “When I met my husband, I learned that his mother had been told to abort him…she was a woman of great courage and faith, who, despite the advice of her doctors, she went ahead and brought her son into the world,” she said. “I’ve thought a lot about how different my life would be if she had made a different choice.”
Fiorina is expected to announce her 2016 candidacy on Monday. A frequent Hillary critic, she told Breitbart that there’s “no question that Hillary Clinton wants to be able to run on the war on women.”
