Leaders of the self-described pro-life movement were predictably annoyed at Haley’s conciliatory-sounding vagueness. Haley’s pitch.” But it could do better-or at least do with something more specific. Haley deserves credit for confronting the subject head on, with a speech that wasn’t sanctimonious or censorious,” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote, before concluding, “The party could do worse than Ms. She sounded human when she described how her husband had been adopted, and how she’d struggled with infertility. Some people seemed to like Haley’s speech, in a tepid way. As for what that might look like, she had no words. “To do that at the federal level, the next president must find national consensus,” she said.
Questioning whether any national anti-abortion legislation would ever pass, Haley did gesture at a need for some action. Read: Abortion pills will be the next battle in the 2024 election
“Different people in different places are taking different paths,” Haley said, with a self-assurance that belied the indeterminacy of her words. And as for the states that have reacted by enshrining abortion-rights protections? Well, she wishes “that weren’t the case.”Īnd then she seemed to channel Veep’s Selina Meyer. It’s good that some states have passed anti-abortion laws in the past year, she said. Anthony Pro-Life America headquarters, in Northern Virginia-a press event billed as a “major policy speech.” But her statements quickly got squishier. “I want to save as many lives and help as many moms as possible,” the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations told reporters gathered at the Susan B. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley set out to declare her position on the issue-and proceeded to be about as clear as concrete. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Republicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post- Roe message on abortion.
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