Steve Watson – modernity.com May 10, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced that he supports abortion up until birth, surprising many, including his own VP pick.
RFK made the remarks in an interview with Sage Steele, noting “I believe we should leave it to the woman, we shouldn’t have the government involved,” and adding “even if it’s full term.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced that he supports abortion up until birth, shocking many, including his own VP pick. Full report here: https://t.co/lUzzt5fK40 pic.twitter.com/5ZMLpTlUjA
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) May 10, 2024
At the beginning of the conversation, Kennedy added the caveat that he believes “Every abortion is a tragedy,” and “Many of them leave permanent trauma on a woman.”
“But I think, ultimately, I don’t trust government to have a jurisdiction over people’s bodies. I think we should leave it to the woman, her pastor, and y’know, her spiritual advisers or her physician or whatever to make those decisions,” he further told Steele.
“I don’t think any woman has ever, ever in history, has said ‘I’m going to have a baby — I’m going to get pregnant and carry that baby to eight months of term and then I’m going to terminate the pregnancy,” he further clarified, adding “I don’t think anybody wants to do that.”
“I don’t trust the state and I think we need to trust the woman,” RFK Jr. reitterated.
The full segment is below. The full interview is here.
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Last year, RFK stated that he believes abortion should be left up to the mother “during the first three months of life,” adding that the state has a duty to protect the child “once a child is viable outside the womb.”
When asked for clarification, his campaign stated that he does not support legislation banning abortion, and that he believes it is “always the woman’s right to choose.”
The New York Post notes that RFK’s running mate Nicole Shanahan didn’t believe it when Steele told her about the latest remarks in a subsequent interview.
RFK Jr. says women can have abortions up to birth, surprising his VP pick: ‘I don’t know where that came from’ https://t.co/1bj9jk7cry pic.twitter.com/vw0YCuagzY
— New York Post (@nypost) May 9, 2024
“That is not Bobby’s position, at least as far as I understand it,” Shanahan responded, adding “My understanding with Bobby’s position is that, you know, every abortion is a tragedy, is a loss of life.”
“My understanding is that he absolutely believes in limits on abortion, and we’ve talked about this,” Shanahan continued, stating “I do not think, I don’t know where that came from.”
Shanahan further suggested there could have been “miscommunication” between Kennedy and Steele, and that she thinks he meant “it should always feel like a woman’s choice to the final moment.”
Shanahan made clear her views on abortion in April, stating that she does not like “the feeling of anyone having control over my body,” adding that personally she “would not feel right terminating a viable life living inside of me.”
People are asking about my views on abortion.
I will speak personally. As a mom, and a person with a womb, I don't like the feeling of anyone having control over my body. It is coercive. It is wrong. But, I am also a woman that would not feel right terminating a viable life… pic.twitter.com/QqmkkzZJkO
— Nicole Shanahan (@NicoleShanahan) April 9, 2024
Did RFK change his stance on abortion?
His campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear told The Post Thursday that “Mr. Kennedy believes that abortion is a tragedy, and that late-term abortions are horrifying.”
“He believes that the mother has the final say, and moral responsibility, in such decisions. He is committed to reducing the abortion rate by supporting mothers and families and implementing universally affordable child care,” Spear added.
Donald Trump, who last month said that abortion laws should be determined by the states, has said that he’d even prefer Joe Biden over RFK, noting “A lot of people think that Junior is a conservative. He’s not. He’s more liberal than anybody running on the Democratic side.”
Trump further asserted that “A vote for Junior would essentially be a wasted protest vote,” and that RFK is a “Democrat plant, a radical left liberal who has been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden.”
Trump slams RFK Jr, calling him "a Democrat plant" and "a radical left liberal who has been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden." Full report here… https://t.co/mBYmVsd3kk pic.twitter.com/oikwDwEh29
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) May 10, 2024
Seeing this, conservatives who may have been considering RFK appear to have abandoned those thoughts:
Kennedy comes out for murder. A fetus can likely survive at 24 weeks. This isn't a pro life post, this is an anti infanticide post. What kind of soulless person would be ok with this???? #Kennedy2024 is just as bad as the rest of the leftists. Only choice is #Trump2024 https://t.co/qPLZrAK1nw
— North Side Anthony 🇺🇸 (@chicagoanthony_) May 9, 2024
This just ended your presidential nomination. Sick! That's not abortion, that's f'ng murder you imbecile! 🤬@RobertKennedyJr
I guess that brain worm ate the last brain cell you had left. OMG…I can't with you. Get lost! https://t.co/uw3dp0NuRU— I Don't Give A Flying F**k✈️ (@HopsClouds) May 9, 2024
This is who the left are now, soulless, morally bankrupt and seriously deranged. https://t.co/yrNHz0Op3d
— Joe (@JoeC1776) May 9, 2024
So he's going for the extreme left vote
— Phlius (@CA_Logistician) May 9, 2024
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Why not wait until the baby is born and then kill it!?🤢
JFK Jr, the abortionist cheerleader has no choice in the matter of calling shots on any issue because jew got him by the short and curly and he is a sensitive type who understands and accepts that jew had absolutely nothing, nada to do with deaths of father and uncle—it was all Palestinian islamofascists, the same ones that sunk USS Liberty, ritually tortured and murdered Lindbergh baby, brought down Twin Towers and infected the world with ordinary flu in order to make big coin out of death-jabbing innocent jews (luckily they didn’t suffer major consequences unlike the deserving goy Amalek).
Jewnior knows, Jewnior understands, Jewnior squirms and squeals in approval like a stuck pig.
Father and uncle spinning in proper Christian graves full of pride.
You can always trust the woman: some of them are Myra Hindley or Rose West, pillars of Society
Full-term abortion, huh? That’s pretty messed up. But then again, I’m all for retroactive post-term abortions for a whole lot of enemies of humanity out there…and it’s a long list…
Kennedy stated, “I don’t trust government to have a jurisdiction over people’s bodies.” Which is sensible, but I’d take it even further; I don’t trust government to have jurisdiction over ANYTHING at this point. It is past time for revolution, a very thorough enema of the federal cartels, a whole lot of hangings, and a do-over.
TRUST THE WOMAN?
abortion has nothing but birth control to most “women” and this will just make things worse
You don’t get moral high ground to MURDER a human just because “you’re a woman”.
CHILDREN – and especially those unborn- should have all the rights, TO LIVE.
He is not a Catholic as he claims to be just for the vote and his political connections and on this issue he has clearly made a deal with the devil. All of the Kennedy’s were the same. As James Hitchcock pointed out some decades ago, the secular establishment always picks some nominal “religious” dupe to usher in polices contrary to that faith, otherwise the secularists would be seen to imposing their own private moral views on the public.
full term abortion for whites from
a white traitor by jew doctors .
Some alphabet agency ought to shoot this grotesque gravel throated fraud… and get the CiA to create some sort of ‘conspiracy theory’ around it..
Americans are against abortion for religious reasons. God knows they kill millions who’ve left the womb whether foreign or who die as US soldiers so they don’t give a damn about life. So as it’s a religious thing they’re no different from Islam which they constantly berate for imposing the hijab on women while they impose on women they must carry to term. The difference is qualitative not quantitative.
I don’t like the idea of abortion either but it is the woman’s body.
Here is what I think our brother, Mr. Kennedy, was attempting to say: “Neither the state government nor the federal government nor any government has the right to choose whether or not one seeks abortion services. Only the woman, deeply involved and affected by such a decision, has this right, ostensibly an inalienable right bestowed upon her by universal law.”
Here’s a related question for readers: “Do governments have the right to decide whether one lives or dies? Some of those who would give governments the right to choose in a death penalty situation would not give them the right to choose in an abortion situation and, of course, vice versa.
Kennedy is simply addressing the notion of who decides. Zelensky in Ukraine has decided to put his citizens in harms way. Some say up to a million Ukrainians have died in the Russian-Ukrainian war, or special operation, owing to the intelligence, or lack thereof, of Zelensky, who is the principal representative of the Ukrainian government.
Who has decided whether or not the people of Gaza should live or die? Bibi, the highest representative of the Israeli government, has decided to kill Palestinians indiscriminantly. Somehow, he has been given the right to choose whether or not Palistinians live or die.
God has given all his children on this planet the right to free will, but if the decision is wrong, immoral, or unjust, payment at some interval in the infinite life of the perpetrating soul will be
requested. For those who’ve done bad deeds, payment would constitute extremely painful experiences, much like the experiences of those who’ve found themselves in a trap in a theater of war.
For good deeds that lead to justice, truth, and enlightenment, spirtitual rewards of all kinds will aggregate and bless the life of he whose deeds are similar to those of a saint.
To that end, human beings need to make no laws regarding abortion; all such laws were developed when our heavenly Father, God, created the universe billions of years ago. As such, is Kennedy’s posture on abortion neatly aligned with that of the universe?
ugly looking thing
I just laugh at those idiots who thought this guy was on their side…. He has always been a pro-establishment politician, he is a Kennedy….
The killing of human life at any stage under legitimate or illegitimate circumstances will haunt the one who killed for the rest of his/her life- unless he/she is without a conscience due to nature &/or nurture.
Translation: kill newborns for fun, but all we get is the dishonest language, like saying “negative growth” instead of diminution
Full term abortion is the same as killing someone who is sleeping.