DOUG BURGUM: Well, I'm comfortable with those battles happening at the state level because if people don't like them they've got an opportunity to get engaged and try to change that. Yeah, "freedom" unless you're a woman who wants control over her own life, health and reproductive decisions. Todd then asked him if he was comfortable with "legislating when a doctor can get involved and when somebody can get a medical intervention on their own" and the "government setting those limits," and Burgum responded by telling Todd he's all about "freedom and liberty" don't ya' know. Yeah, no culture war issues, as he tosses out some red meat to the base on exactly that. That’s – and that's a statistic, but that's 330 a day. Every state’s become a border state, 110,000 overdose deaths in this country last year, again. And these are things that the president right now, President Biden, has completely abdicated his responsibility on.
As president, things that you're supposed to focus on, things like the economy, like energy policy, which is completely tied to national security, and part of national security is the border. These are things that are left to the state. DOUG BURGUM: Where I'm at is I believe in states' rights, and I believe that the president of the United States has got a defined set of things they're supposed to work on, and it's not every culture war topic.
DOUG BURGUM: The states created the federal government, not the other way around.ĬHUCK TODD: I understand. But states get to decide where they want to fit on that spectrum. Now, I think people can say Republicans are extreme, I personally think that having a late term abortion, having an abortion one day before a child is born, that's abhorrent to me. DOUG BURGUM: No, I wouldn't, because it should be left to the states. I – that's why I'm on the record saying that I would not sign a federal abortion ban.ĬHUCK TODD: You would not sign any federal legislation at all, whether it set the line at 24 weeks or six weeks? And what's going to pass in North Dakota is not ever going to pass in California and New York, and wouldn't even pass in the state of Minnesota. DOUG BURGUM: Well, my position is that I support the Dobbs decision, and this is the decision that should be left to the states. I understand the law doesn't sound like this is the law you would've designed, but it's the law you signed. A voter wants to know what your position is on abortion. Todd also allowed Burgum to pretend he's somehow moderate on the issue of abortion because he claims he wouldn't sign a federal ban.ĬHUCK TODD: So let's take abortion, the six week ban. They just don't want to force women who have problem pregnancies to choose between their own life and health and that of a fetus that has some fatal abnormality, but Chuck Todd didn't bother to tell him that, of course. Later during the segment, Todd specifically asked Burgum about the abortion ban he signed, and allowed him to get away with pulling the "both sides" routine and call Democrats extremists who want to kill babies right before they're born.
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