DES MOINES, Iowa â Theresa Greenfield, a Democratic candidate in Iowaâs U.S. Senate race, told a voter during a Zoom interview with J.D. Scholten on Monday evening that she would never compromise on abortion rights.
Scholten, reading a question from a view named Jim, asked, âI hope you would agree that sometimes there is a need for compromise in Washington, would there be an issue upon which youâd be unwilling to compromise?â
âYou know, as I travel, the state people want the divisiveness too. And I donât think the expectation is that weâre going to get our way on everything. But we do want to have the fight. We want to have the discussion in the debate, which right now, Mitch McConnell, Joni Ernst, theyâre not having that debate, because every bipartisan bill that comes over from the house is just sitting on his desk, and theyâve really stopped that democratic process. So I want to go and work together. Iâll stand up for so many things. But I know weâll also have to make compromises along the way to get to get things done,â she said.
âSo are there things that I say, âheck, no toâ? Well, I will always defend a womanâs right to make her own healthcare decisions that is uncompromising to me⊠Frankly, everybody needs to be able to make their own healthcare decisions, not just women. Iâm not going to sidestep that one. And I suspect you know, everything else, weâre just going to have to have a good old fight about, but the people want us to have that debate. They want us to go in and bring ideas for 50 states together and think about the good of their country and the good of their home communities, of course,â Greenfield concluded.
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Democrats have used âwomenâs choice,â âwomenâs healthcare,â and âreproductive rightsâ as a euphemism for abortion.
Greenfield does not directly state her support of abortion-on-demand on her website either. It reads in part, âFor decades, politicians in Washington and in states across the country have attacked womenâs health care rights with the goal of shutting down Planned Parenthood and pushing rigid, uncompromising restrictions that jeopardize womenâs health and safety and interfere in complicated and deeply personal decisions. Thousands of people in the heartland rely on Planned Parenthood for their health care, serving a crucial part of our population.â
She boasts the endorsement of abortion advocacy groups Emilyâs List and NARAL Pro-Choice America. Emilyâs List is Greenfieldâs largest donor giving the presumptive Democratic nominee $86,140 to date.
The annual Marist College/Knights of Columbus poll on abortion released in January found that seven in ten Americans, including nearly half of those who identify as pro-choice, want significant restrictions on abortion. They also found 65 percent of those polled would vote for a candidate who wants substantial restrictions on abortion. Also, six in ten Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
Watch Scholtenâs entire conversation with Greenfield: