Kay Bailey Hutchison Struggles With Abortion Issue

When laying out your position on abortion rights in a GOP primary debate, you don’t want your audience to laugh. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison learned that the hard way last week.

At the KERA debate, Dave Montgomery of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram asked Hutchison if the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision should remain in effect. “What concerns me about that is that we would then have some states that would allow abortion as the baby is coming out of the birth canal,” Hutchison responded. “I would never support that. I have voted against it, and ...

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