Ron DeSantis: Democrats are the Radicals on Abortion Because They Want “Abortions Up to Birth”

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Jul 24, 2023   |   8:53AM   |   Washington, DC

To hear it from the liberal media, pro-life Republicans are abortion extremists because they want to protect the lives of little babies before birth and help pregnant women.

But in a recent interview, Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says Democrats are the real radicals because they want to kill babies in abortions up to birth.

“So, I said I’m pro-life, I will be a pro-life president, and we will support pro-life policies,” DeSantis said in a recent interview with CNN. But DeSantis went further and called out Democrats like Joe Biden and those in Congress who want to pass legislation reacting to Dobbs that would restore unlimited abortions up to birth nationwide.

“I think the danger from Congress is, if we lose the election, they’re going to try to nationalize abortion up until the moment of birth. And in some liberal states, you actually have post-birth abortions and I think that that’s wrong,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis is correct.

Recently, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) recently signed a bill that guts long-standing pro-life protections while inserting gender ideology at every turn. Renee Carlson, general counsel for True North Legal, an initiative of the Minnesota Family Council, criticized the bill’s promotion of abortion

“Based on elusive claims about access to abortion and with insufficient public notice or debate, the Minnesota legislature and Walz administration created one of the most extreme abortion regimes in the country. Minnesota’s newly elected Democratic trifecta created a fundamental right to abortion by repealing, and thus removing, nearly all health and safety protections in civil and criminal law regulating abortion, impacting women and young girls,” she said.

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Most notably, the bill took out language that would require medical providers to preserve the life and health of an infant born alive as a result of a failed abortion. It also removed much of the state’s long-standing reporting requirements on actions taken to preserve the life of an infant born alive during an abortion and whether the infant survived.

Representative Tina Liebling (D), the bill’s author in the House, spoke in defense of removing born-alive language at the conclusion of the floor debate. Liebling stated that decisions about medical care are not always “save the patient at all costs” and “the idea that every infant that is born alive should have intensive intervention is also false.”

And just last week, thanks to Governor Janet Mills, the New England state will now allow abortions for any reason, even if the baby is viable and could live outside the womb.

But those actions stand at odds with what Americans believe — as 27 recent polls show Americans are pro-life on abortion.