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 ronald reagan. some of the new law
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