CV NEWS FEED // Critics slammed Republican political advisor Kellyanne Conway after she told Republicans to stop saying Democrats support abortion “up until the moment of birth.”
Conway said last week that she would “counsel clients against saying ‘Democrats are for abortion up until the moment of birth.’” She made the remark at POLITICO‘s 2024 Health Care Summit.
On Friday, The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported:
Conway then went on to imply that [former President Donald] Trump was speaking metaphorically when he said to failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: “If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.”
Conway was the campaign manager for Trump’s successful 2016 White House run. She later served in his administration for three and a half years as a senior counselor to the president.
Olohan noted that while speaking at the same POLITICO event, Conway “also touched on her support for both TikTok and in vitro fertilization [IVF].”
Pro-life leaders were quick to blast the political consultant’s remarks, implying that they were detrimental to the mission of protecting children from abortion.
Catholic philosopher Jay W. Richards, PhD, called it “[a]bsurd” for Conway to claim that Trump’s 2016 remarks were only a “metaphor.”
“How many national Dems at the time rebutted Trump by affirming gestational limits to abortion?” Richards asked on X (formerly Twitter). “How many do that now?”
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“That 2016 debate was a seminal moment for many prolifers (including me),” Richards added. “It was the moment I knew I wasn’t voting for a third-party candidate.”
In a reply to a user pointing out Conway’s support for IVF, Richards suggested that the Republican operative may have been coming from a position of “pseudo-pragmatism.”
Christian journalist Ben Zeisloft pointed out that following Conway’s comments, American conservatives have two distinct messaging choices regarding social and cultural issues.
“Which Way, Republican Voter?” he asked on X.
Zeisloft contrasted Conway’s approach with that of Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-OK, who recently stated: “If we let culture set the terms, then culture is god and not our Lord.”
Deevers is a Baptist pastor and a self-identified “abortion abolitionist.”
Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, a Catholic, also took to X writing “Trump has always been against late term abortion and not metaphorically.”
In an article published Monday, LifeNews founder and CEO Steven Ertelt wrote that Conway gave “a logically flimsy excuse.”
“First, while anecdotally most people don’t know anyone who wants to get an abortion at 8 months, the actual policy Biden, Harris and Democrats support allows abortions up to birth,” Ertelt wrote.
“Biden specifically wants to sign legislation that allows abortions up to birth unless states limit late-term abortions,” he went on:
Harris, who is America’s abortion cheerleader, attacks pro-life Americans for supporting any limits on abortion and says they are denying freedom to women by embracing any limits whatsoever. And Democrat governors have literally signed bills enacting abortions up to birth.
Secondly, Conway’s admonition denies the reality that abortions are happening up to birth. The truth is the CDC has reported for decades that thousands of babies are killed each and every year in late-term abortions after viability.
Ertelt stated that the pro-life movement “must flip the narrative and underscore how Biden and Harris are the real extremists because they support abortions up to birth.”
Last Thursday, Harris became the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion facility when she toured a Minneapolis Planned Parenthood.
CatholicVote reported that while visiting the facility,
Harris called it a “health care clinic” and said she was there “to uplift the work that is happening in Minnesota as an example of what true leadership looks like.”
“[I]t is only right and fair that people have access to the health care they need, and they have access to healthcare in an environment where they are treated with dignity and respect,” Harris said.
“And please do understand that when we talk about a clinic such as this it is absolutely about healthcare and reproductive healthcare,” she added.
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