Rand Paul wants conservatives to go on offense when it comes to debating abortion, telling the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition,“I’m tired of us retreating on this issue.”
“I’m going to push back,” he said, according to The Hill’s report. “I’m going to be a key part of this and keep talking about it.”
It’s a line Paul has been perfecting over the last few weeks, ever since he rejected a question about abortion from a reporter, retorting, “Why don’t we ask the DNC: is it OK to kill a 7-pound baby in the uterus? You go back and go ask Debbie Wasserman-Schultz if she’s OK with killing a 7-pound baby that’s just not born yet.”
The pro-life wing of the GOP went wild for this approach, and Paul repeated a version of this reasoning in Iowa. “Let’s ask the Debbie Wasserman Schultzes of this world when life begins,” he said.
“Let’s flip the tables on them,” Paul said, noting that “84 percent of America is not comfortable with third-trimester abortion.”
“I think we can win this argument.”
At the Susan B. Anthony List’s Campaign for Life Strategy Summit earlier this month Paul reconciled his pro-life stance with his “libertarian-ish” views, arguing, “You can’t have liberty if you don’t protect where your liberty originates from, and that’s your right to life.”
