https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iquGx_rbdk
Here is the complete context, from White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday:
Q However particularly with reference to limiting these freedoms — I suppose my query is: The Supreme Courtroom created this house for the anti-abortion motion on the state degree and in addition maybe on the federal degree to try to limit this freedom. The place do they match into all of this? How would the President describe them after that call? Have been they simply extremists, or had been they, you understand, half and parcel of a semi-fascist —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, this is what I am going to say: We proceed to — proceed to see assaults on folks’s basic rights — proper? — of People with new abortion legal guidelines throughout the nation.
And when you may have nationwide Republicans who’re — who’re leaders of their — of their political occasion; who sit in workplace; who say that they wish to take away the rights even in case of incest, in case — and never — and in case of rape; and taking away a lady’s proper to decide on her physique — that is excessive.
And — and, you understand, the President goes to name that out. He’ll proceed to do all the things that he can to guarantee that we shield folks’s freedoms. He’ll do all the things that he can to name that out. And, you understand, that’s essential to name out. That’s essential to speak about.
And, once more, we see a majority of People who disagree. And so, when you’re not with the place a majority of People are, then, you understand, that’s excessive. That’s an excessive mind-set.
I am not going to — that is what I’ve for you, Phil.
I ought to notice that forbidding abortion even in instances of rape or incest is certainly the view of solely a minority, although the outcomes fluctuate from 35% (the “oppose” in “Please inform me if you happen to help or oppose a regulation that enables abortion at any time throughout being pregnant in instances of rape or incest”) to 14%-16% (“unlawful” in “Do you suppose abortions ought to be authorized or unlawful when the being pregnant was brought on by rape or incest?,” “unlawful in “How about when the being pregnant was brought on by rape or incest? Do you suppose abortion ought to be authorized in that state of affairs or unlawful?”). And “taking away a lady’s proper to decide on her physique” extra typically, which I feel roughly matches the “abortion ought to be unlawful more often than not” or “all the time unlawful” appears to ballot at about 32% to 46%, relying on how the query is worded.
Likewise, permitting abortion on demand typically, together with within the third trimester, is supported solely by 20% of the general public (up from 13% 4 years in the past), and permitting it within the second trimester (mainly the Roe v. Wade rule) is supported solely by 36% of the general public (up from 28% 4 years in the past). Saying that some variations of these views are excessive, whether or not as a result of they actually do have the help of solely a small fringe, or as a result of they’re logically on the ends of the spectrum (e.g., “all the time unlawful” or “all the time authorized”) could also be descriptively defensible, although I am undecided that that is what the President’s consultant ought to be saying.
However the specific factor she mentioned was:
We see a majority of People who disagree. And so, when you’re not with the place a majority of People are, then, you understand, that’s excessive.
And that strikes me as arduous to defend.
