Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have chosen to make abortion a central issue in this presidential campaign. Donald Trump and JD Vance should explain that the Harris-Walz abortion agenda is extreme and out of step with most of the American people. Trump and Vance should also affirm the service of pregnancy care centers and other initiatives that help women facing difficult pregnancies.

The Biden-Harris administration has expressed their support for the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” and Harris has pledged to sign such legislation into law. That legislation doesn’t limit a single abortion at any time for any reason, and it effectively imposes a national policy of abortion for any reason up until the moment of birth. 

Harris and Walz claim their legislation only allows abortion up until viability. However, the bill has a post-viability “health” exception and they deliberately decline to define “health” in the legislation – despite defining numerous other terms.

The Biden-Harris Administration is joined at the hip with the World Health Organization (WHO), so it’s notable that the preamble to W.H.O.’s Constitution defines “health” in the broadest terms possible:

       “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” 

Therefore, we can assume that Harris administration regulations will define “health” in accordance with that W.H.O. definition, meaning that post-viability abortions – including the 8th and 9th months of pregnancy – will be allowed for any reason because that definition of health encompasses any possible “social well-being” reason under the sun.

The Harris-Walz abortion bill will require taxpayers to fund abortion for any reason throughout all 9 months of pregnancy. It overrides every federal and state conscience protection for doctors and nurses who don’t want to be forced to perform abortions, and it makes a special point of overriding protections under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

Walz has already signed this kind of extreme legislation at the state level, and he repealed protection for babies born alive during a late-term abortion procedure. Harris and Walz have both expressed a desire to shut down pregnancy care centers that help women facing difficult pregnancies. They are the most extreme abortion advocates who have ever run for president and vice president. This shouldn’t be hard for Trump and Vance to explain. They just need to step up and do it.