Yahoo editor-in-chief 'pretty sure' Marco Rubio was wrong about Roe v. Wade

Sen. Marco Rubio, third-place finisher in the Iowa caucuses, spent much of the first half of Saturday night’s #GOPDebate acting as a punching bag for Gov. Chris Christie, who criticized Rubio for answering every question with a rehearsed speech. Rubio came back strong, though, when the candidates were asked about abortion.

Rubio also says media hasn’t asked single question in Dem debates on abortion. Says on abortion, Democrats are the extremists. #GOPDebate

— WRAL Gov't Coverage (@NCCapitol) February 7, 2016

Rubio: I would rather lose an election than be wrong on the issue of life.

— Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) February 7, 2016

Rubio: "I would rather lose an election than be wrong on the issue of life" https://t.co/bEctkEqs77 #GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/JaxxpV9HBJ

— The Hill (@thehill) February 7, 2016

@MarcoRubio with good response on abortion. #GOPDebate

— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) February 7, 2016

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— Wesley Donehue (@wesleydonehue) February 7, 2016

Lis Smith, who formerly worked for Obama for America and then as deputy campaign manager for Gov. Martin O’Malley, thought it was ridiculous to claim that even a single person believed that abortion should be legal at 9 months — protesters smearing themselves with fake blood and chaining themselves to balcony railings at the Texas State House to derail legislation that would prohibit abortions after 5 months.

Cmon, man. @MarcoRubio– literally no one—NO ONE—believes that abortion should be legal at 9 mos. Don’t give @PolitiFact that gift #GOPDebate

— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) February 7, 2016

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton didn’t seem to want to place a legal limit on abortion “at any stage of pregnancy” either in her Sept. 21 appearance on Face the Nation:

[JOHN] DICKERSON: This week, the Senate is going to vote to impose a federal ban on late-term abortions. Do you support a federal limit on abortion at any stage of pregnancy?

CLINTON: This is one of those really painful questions that people raise. And, obviously, it’s really emotional.

I think that the kind of late-term abortions that take place are because of medical necessity. And, therefore, I would hate to see the government interfering with that decision. I think that, again, this gets back to whether you respect a woman’s right to choose or not. And I think that is what this whole argument once again is about.

Another expert legal opinion came from the editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Politics.

Pretty sure abortion "on the due date"of fetus is prohibited by Roe.

— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) February 7, 2016

If you need information, you should always ask someone in the media. https://t.co/vIbvdjBLak

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 7, 2016

@thegarance Nope. Roe permits that to be regulated, but doesn't purport to abolish it itself.

— tedfrank (@tedfrank) February 7, 2016

@tedfrank Roe as amended by subsequent decisions, the framework for legal abortion we have in this country at this time.

— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) February 7, 2016

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