When it comes to abortion, independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. is evolving his position so fast that it’s hard to keep track of what he actually believes.
On his campaign website, Kennedy says that he will maximize a woman’s ability to choose to have an abortion, but will reduce the number of abortions “by choice, not by force.”
“As President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will make it easier for women to choose life,” the candidate’s website reads. “He will give them more choices than they have today, we will see a lot fewer abortions, and a lot more flourishing families.”
In a recent interview with the Catholic network EWTN, Kennedy said, “Every abortion is a tragedy” and that he would “like to maximize choice but also minimize the number of abortions that occur every year.”
But when it comes to establishing a limit on when abortions can take place, Kennedy has proven to be a moving target. Last August, the candidate said he supported an abortion ban after three months, before quickly walking it back and affirming that he “does not support legislation banning abortion.”
This week, the quirky independent candidate decided to go one step further and say that he supported legal abortion up to the moment of birth.
“I wouldn’t leave it to the states. My belief is that we should leave it to the woman. We shouldn’t have government involved,” Kennedy said in a podcast interview with Sage Steele. When pushed if that meant up to full term, he replied, “Even if it’s full term.”
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While Kennedy’s third-party bid for the presidency is the longest of long shots, his inconsistencies on abortion are not doing him any favors during an election year when it is featured as a prominent matter.
Kennedy, whose dynastic family has long been intertwined with Democratic Party politics, has appealed to some on the political right due to his status as an outsider with populist appeal. But his latest comments on abortion betray a radical position that fits clearly on the Left. There is no pro-life case for RFK Jr. A vote for him is a vote for abortion on demand.