Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes: Ban abortion for Zika because birth defects are ‘nothing new’
On Monday, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that Rubio’s stance reflected the beliefs of many men in the Republican Party.
“What Republicans did was they poisoned the [Zika] bill with efforts to try to cut back funding for those [reproductive health] clinics and to cut back funding on Obamacare,” Cardona explained. “They really weren’t interested in fixing this issue. They were interested in playing politics and Marco Rubio’s comment underscores why.”
Hughes agreed that microcephaly was a “devastating disease,” but added that children with birth defects were “nothing new.”
“We don’t have the research, we don’t know what Zika is going to do,” she opined. “And Sen. Rubio is doing the correct thing. One out of every 33 babies in the United States right now is born with a birth defect.”
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