By Raul Castillo
05 Feb 2024, 18:54 PM EST
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley warned Monday that Republicans should avoid legislation that seeks to imprison women who have abortions.
“Can’t we agree that no state law should tell a woman that if she has an abortion she will go to jail or receive the death penalty? Let’s start there,” Haley said at a Pints & Politics event in Charleston, South Carolina, as reported by Newsweek. “I will not be part of the demonization of this issue.”
However, the former ambassador to the United Nations made it clear that she is pro-life, ensuring that she is “without regrets in favor of life” because her husband was adopted and she had problems with the birth of her children.
“I mean, no offense, but guys don’t know how to talk about this, and they just don’t do it… The topic of abortion is incredibly personal for every woman and every man, and it requires respect,” Haley said, according to the outlet.
More understanding than other Republicans
This is not the first time that Haley has been more sympathetic to abortion during the campaign than other Republicans, generally much more radical against the practice.
In December, when Texas woman Kate Cox was banned from having an abortion despite medical reasons, the Republican presidential candidate called for “compassion” for the woman’s plight.
“We don’t want any woman to sit there and face a weird situation and have to give birth to a baby in those types of circumstances, any more than we want women to have abortions at 37, 38, 39 weeks,” Haley told NBC. News. “We have to humanize the situation and confront it with compassion.”
“I think Texas will come back and have their… medical board look at this and say, ‘How should we deal with this?’” Haley told the outlet. “I think every state is going to do that.”
Last month, however, Haley said she was “fine” with a federal law banning abortions.
“I have said that I agree with a federal law. But the point is that, to obtain a federal law, it is necessary to have a majority of the House, 60 senators and the signature of the president,” he commented.
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