MSNBC Slams Nikki Haley for Not Supporting Abortion Just Because She’s a Woman

National   |   Alex Christy   |   Jun 6, 2023   |   11:47AM   |   Washington, DC

On Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley declared that protecting the integrity of women’s sports is the women’s issue of our time. On Monday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Stephanie Ruhle welcomed two men to proclaim that Haley “should be ashamed of herself” and that the real women’s issue of our time is abortion.

Haley also declared that there was a connection between high suicide rates among teenage girls and the movement to allow males to compete against them. After some discussion on how the data does not support that thesis, the conversation moved to the issue itself with Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen declaring that Gen Z is “living in a time of incredible turmoil and rather than understanding that broadly, she is making light of it, she’s trying to score really cheap political points on it. If she has a daughter, she should be ashamed of herself.”

Click Like if you are pro-life to like the LifeNews Facebook page!

“If” she has a daughter? Earlier, Ruhle played a video of Haley talking about her daughter running track and some in the media tried to make the dress she wore to her daughter’s wedding in April a big controversy.

The strategist who once purported to be a Republican then asked “I mean, what time is she living in? The 1700s, the 1800s? I mean, I’m not sure what time she exists in other than how much longer she has got before the, you know, coffers of her campaign run out.”

Former Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney mockingly followed up, “The woman’s issue of our time –”

Ruhle then interrupted to voice her agreement that she couldn’t believe Haley would say something other than abortion is the women’s issue of our time. Cracking herself up, Ruhle proclaimed, “That’s what I have written down here. The women’s issue of our time, not access to abortion care.”

Maloney, naturally, agreed, “I mean, if you are to make a list of the issues affecting the rights of women in America, you might start with the denial of basic reproductive freedom, guaranteed by the Constitution. Which cynical politicians like Nikki Haley are okay with.”

Of course, abortion isn’t in the Constitution and how is opposing abortion cynical? Yet, Maloney was just getting started. Returning to the issue of school sports, he added:

But look out, I mean, apparently the greatest threat to women in America are that there are some trans kids who might want to play sports in school and it’s offensive and it’s wrong and the fact is that the trans community is still subject to enormous violence in this country and discrimination and this rhetoric gives a permission structure for people to hate on those kids. And it’s wrong.

Anybody who wants to play sports in school should be able to, but they are not entitled to compete against whoever they want when they would unfair advantage over the competition. That is not a “permission structure” to “hate,” it is, as the left likes to say in other contexts, pro-science.

This segment was sponsored by Citi.

LifeNews Note: Alex Christy writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.