Tue Sep 26, 2023 – 12:17 pm EDT
GREENLAND, New Hampshire (LifeSiteNews) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday reiterated her call to “humanize” the abortion issue rather than “demonizing” it as other Republicans have, arguing that it’s time to find “consensus” on base-level guidelines.
Speaking to voters at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Portsmouth Country Club in presidential battleground state New Hampshire, Haley, who is polling around seven percent, said a federal law banning abortion is impossible and suggested pro-lifers and pro-abortion activists agree to ban late-term abortion and expand access to contraception.
“Why don’t we just find consensus?” Haley asked, repeating a familiar talking point from her campaign. “Can’t we agree that we don’t want late-term abortions? Can’t we agree that we should encourage adoptions and better quality adoptions? Can’t we agree that doctors and nurses who don’t believe in abortion shouldn’t have to perform them?”
“Can’t we agree that contraception should be accessible?” she said. “And can’t we agree that no state law should say that any woman who’s had an abortion can go to jail or get the death penalty? Let’s just start there.”
“We have to humanize this issue,”
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