Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg Want Abortion Drugs Killing Babies Sold Over the Counter
Part 1
Seven Democratic presidential candidates, including front runners Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, want to remove safeguards on dangerous abortion drugs and allow them to be sold over the counter.
The New York Times recently surveyed all the Democratic presidential candidates on abortion, asking about restrictions on late-term abortions, abortion clinic regulations, taxpayer-funded abortions, judicial nominees and more.
Even the left-leaning newspaper noted that the candidates have embraced “far-reaching” abortion extremism and now are touting abortion positions that most Americans disagree with. Most candidates want taxpayer-funding for elective abortions, and very few support any restrictions on abortion in the third trimester after the baby is viable.
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, claimed that supporting the killing of unborn babies for any reason up to birth is something candidates should be proud of.
“They’re setting the tone that this is something we should own proudly, and not just react to when something happens,” Hogue said.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the candidates also oppose common sense abortion clinic regulations, things like requiring abortion practitioners to have hospital admitting privileges so that they can treat patients experiencing emergency complications, according to the report.
Seven also said they would de-regulate abortion drugs by making them available over the counter.
“This would be a major leap from current policy, which restricts the drugs’ availability even by prescription, and would require multiple legal and regulatory changes. But if enacted, it would make it much harder to effectively ban abortion,” the newspaper noted.
The candidates who support making abortion drugs available over the counter are: Warren, Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Marianne Williamson, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang and Michael Bennet, according to the survey.
Abortion activists also are pushing for the abortion drugs to be de-regulated, ignoring serious physical risks and the potential for abuse.