DNC Chair Refuses To Say Whether Her Party Opposes Ban on Third-Trimester Abortions

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “What is appropriate from our perspective? I’ll speak for myself, but I think I can speak for the most of my party and that is that a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body should be between her and her doctor. And that in terms of personal liberty, we definitely have a different opinion — Rand Paul and I do — and there is a Supreme court decision tough that answers those questions for us and subsequent Supreme court decision—“[crosstalk]
KELLY: “But that Supreme court decision [crosstalk] the state has a say, and the state can set limits.”
That’s right and the state has made those decisoons.”
KELLY: “But what is recognized is that it’s not just between a woman and her doctor, that the state has a right to step in on behalf of the fetus and say at some point that fetus does obtain rights. You would admit that you can’t have women aborting third trimester babies just on a whim, right. I mean, so you agree that there is some limits —“
Certainly not on a whim, but when a doctor —“
KELLY: “That’s what he’s trying to get at. Where do the Democrats stand on —“
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “We’ve been very clear. There’s no ambivalence here. We’ve been clear. We believe that that decision is best left not to government but between a woman and her doctor. I can’t tell you a specific date and time past which we on all — in all cases are certain that that choice shouldn’t be made because that decision is very unique and individual to the woman, and should be in consultation with her conscience and her God and her doctor. That is a decision left to her. Now, there are — there’s an overlay of restrictions that the Supreme court has imposed through Roe versus Wade and subsequent decisions, and states have gone and implemented their own laws to put those restrictions in place. That’s how the law — I don’t agree with all of those restrictions, but the law should be followed and that’s our view.”
KELLY: “And we will hear much more about —“
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “I want to hear from Rand Paul what his view is.”
KELLY: “All right. I’m gonna call him up and I’m gonna tell him that I have asked you.”
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “And that he should stop deflecting and answer the darn question.”