alabama s, don t make exception for rape and incest. julie, i hate to reduce this to politics. it is a hot political issue. how does the white house political operation feel about this drive and particularly if women come to feel that roe, the 1973 ruling, that allowed a woman s right to an abortion, stated it, might conceivably under threat? i heard two different arguments from republicans this week. one for people who think politically, again, we will have to talk about this in a political space, who think politically it will be good for republicans, it energizes a portion of the republican base that has been supportive of trump for one reason, which thy believe he will put judges on the court that will try to overturn roe. the second piece of it, i heard this from a lot of republicans, they re worried about what this done to their support with women. if you look at the 2018 mid-terms, republicans lost
and this is something that has been going on as a debate topic for 30 years and for a good reason. the pro-life movement has a choice to make here, take it to the courts and hope it gets to the supreme court and hopes that roe v wade gets overturned. there s a way they ve done this over the past couple of decades in the sense of changing people s public opinion based on the new science and technology that we have, rather than going through the court system. so it s a two-fold issue. it s always a hot topic. amy klobuchar couldn t answer your question about how she feels about late term abortion, not just for the health of the mother but elective late term abortion. that s a question democrats will have to answer on the campaign trail. chris: president trump has been surprisingly quiet about this all week until yesterday afternoon when he put out this tweet. i am strongly pro-life with the three exceptions, ra rape, ince, protecting the life of the mother, the same position taken by ron
alabama s new law, we got this on twitter from ray kitchens. why would they make no exceptions to rape and incest? katie, how do you answer ray and how do you respond to the whole fact that this has become such a hot issue. of course, abortion is always a hot issue. to answer the question, if you are intellectually and morally consistent with your belief that life starts at consistent conceu have a hard time justifying an exception for people who were conceived in rape. there are a number of people who are adding to the conversation and saying why are we valued less because of the way that we were conceived. when it comes to the abortion issue, this is something that a number of states have passed. the accusation has been that republican men are trying to control women s bodies when the alabama governor is a woman. there s a democrat in louisiana, the governor there, who is willing to sign a similar piece of legislation.
this is dangerous. it is a place that we have never seen. i think people have always warned this could happen. it s actually happened. and when i talk to people, whether they are pro-choice or they are personally opposed to abortion, a lot of them don t think we should go this direction. 73% of americans don t want to overturn roe v wade. you have a situation here where they would actually put doctors in prison, 99 years, that s what the alabama law says. this is a law that they passed that would mean that if someone was raped, if a college student was raped, she wouldn t have a choice in that pregnancy from a rape. i don t think the majority of americans are where the republicans are on this issue right now. chris: but senator, pro-life advocates are pushing back. there s a group called restoration pac. they re running an ad on facebook that we re showing right now, showing what it calls the party of death.