CV NEWS FEED // As the 2024 presidential election campaign heats up, the pro-abortion views of several high-profile male members of the Democratic Party – including the husband of presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris – have been increasingly scrutinized.
Last week, Biden-Harris administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on the controversial Zoom call event “White Dudes for Harris.”
“Men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion,” Buttigieg stated. “Men are more free.”
Buttigieg at the time was reportedly in contention to become Harris’ running mate.
At the time, pro-life advocate Abby Johnson called Buttigieg’s remarks “a disgusting concept.”
“Children shouldn’t have to die just so men can use a woman’s body for pleasure with no consequence,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Johnson was formerly a Planned Parenthood abortion director before converting to Catholicism and joining the pro-life movement.
Pro-life podcaster Christine Yeargin wrote on X: “Abortion allows and encourages neglect, coercion, and the abandonment of women while simultaneously ending a life. This is anything but freedom.”
Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins wrote that “abortion up until birth at taxpayer expense allows men to be … [f]ree from the consequences of exploiting women.”
“I am sorry, Mr. Transportation Secretary, that’s not freedom,” Perkins added. “That is a societal trainwreck.”
Fr. Ronald Vierling, known on X as “Father V,” wrote:
Buttigieg says abortion makes men free. He is right about that. Abortion makes men free from their fatherly duties, thus allowing them to prey on women—in the name of liberating them—while appearing to be on their side.
Just days after Buttigieg’s widely-panned comments, The Daily Mail released what has been referred to as a “bombshell” report about Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff.
The Mail reported on Saturday that Emhoff’s “first marriage ended after he got his children’s nanny pregnant.”
The nanny, Najen Naylor, did not deny the story, the Mail reported:
A close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy told DailyMail.com that Naylor did not keep the child – though her social media shows a video of a mysterious baby girl named Brook in 2009, the year the baby would have been born.
The New York Post reported the same day that Emhoff admitted to cheating on his first wife Kerstin Emhoff, but did not appear to provide further details that confirmed or denied the Mail’s story. The Emhoffs share two children.
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The Post’s report also stated that it remains “unclear” whether Emhoff’s affair led to an abortion: “Naylor did not keep the baby, a close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy told the Daily Mail. It’s unclear what exactly the friend meant.”
Furthermore, The Post added that Harris’ husband’s previous affair “was disclosed to President Biden’s vetting committee four years ago before he chose Harris as his running mate on the 2020 ticket.”
Multiple critics responded to the reports surrounding Emhoff by pointing out the second gentleman’s vehemently pro-abortion record.
In a 2022 X (then Twitter) post referenced by many of these critics, Emhoff wrote: “I remember when [Harris] called to tell me about the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs. The first thing I thought about was my daughter.”
“As a dad and as a husband, I’m going to do everything I can to speak out and help advance reproductive freedom,” Emhoff added in the post.
“This is all so gross,” wrote The Federalist Editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway on X Sunday. “Not only the awful evil of talking about the importance of being able to have one’s grandchildren killed, but realizing this man broke up his family by impregnating his daughter’s nanny.”
On a similar note, Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis wrote: “Abortion is the last refuge of dirtbag men like Doug who sleep with their children’s nanny but don’t want to deal with any of the obvious consequences of that betrayal.”
In May, NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor reported:
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is pushing for more men to become involved in advocating for abortion rights, telling NBC News in an exclusive interview that he sees a role for men in the ongoing battle over access.
Emhoff then told Alcindor that abortion “is an issue of fairness to women. Women are dying. It’s affecting man’s ability to plan their lives.”
