During a recent interview with Laura Ingraham, Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker did a complete reversal on abortion, telling Ingraham that he doesn’t believe the final decision on whether a woman should have an abortion should be between the woman and her doctor.
Ingraham responded: “But you don’t believe — I just want to clarify this, governor … you don’t believe the final decision should be between a woman and her doctor—”
“No,” Walker replied.
So here in 2015, Gov. Scott Walker believes that the final decision on whether a woman should be able to receive an abortion shouldn’t be between a woman and her doctor, but back in 2014 when he was in a reelection campaign he ran an ad in which he said, “Hi, I’m Scott Walker. I’m pro-life,” he says. “But there’s no doubt in my mind the decision of whether or not to end a pregnancy is an agonizing one. That’s why I support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options. The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.”
Here’s Walker’s ad from 2014.
At the rate he’s going, Scott Walker will have flip-flopped more during his presidential campaign than 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney could have ever managed to do, and that’s saying something. What’s more, Walker’s most recent statement that he doesn’t believe the final decision on abortion should be between a woman and her doctor leaves me wondering just who Walker believes the final decision should be left to.
Should it be left to Scott Walker, or will he designate some government bureaucrat to hover over women and their doctors in exam rooms with final say-so over the final decision?