James Carville on abortion, Tim Walz’s tampon legislation and more

Democratic strategist James Carville mentioned he agrees with former President Clinton that abortion needs to be “protected, authorized and uncommon.”

Carville spoke with Fox Information host Sean Hannity Thursday on “Hannity,” arguing abortion will be restricted if the nation has “aggressive contraception” and “aggressive availability.”

“You understand, the precise abortion charge, the variety of abortions has gone up since this idiotic Dobbs resolution. And I believe that Roe v Wade is correct. It takes under consideration sure rights within the first trimester, sure rights within the second [and] sure within the third trimester,” he mentioned. 

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The Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, practically 50 years after the landmark resolution was reached in 1973.

Hannity additionally requested Carville about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signing laws final yr that gives free menstrual merchandise to college students, claiming Vice President Kamala Harris’ operating mate needed to place them in boys’ bogs.

“I’ll disagree with you vehemently and firmly on one factor. I believe providing tampons to college students is likely one of the greatest concepts I’ve ever heard,” mentioned Carville. “I am very snug with tampons being supplied free to college students in class. I am completely 100%.”

The laws Walz signed says menstrual merchandise “have to be obtainable to all menstruating college students in restrooms repeatedly utilized by college students in grades 4 to 12 in keeping with a plan developed by the college district.”

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks through the Democratic Nationwide Conference on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago.  (AP Photograph/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A half dozen officers from Minnesota faculty districts instructed The New York Instances that they had not positioned menstrual merchandise in boys’ restrooms. Some college students, lecturers and directors mentioned menstrual merchandise had been usually positioned in three locations: ladies’ restrooms, gender-neutral restrooms, or the nurse’s workplace.

Toya Stewart Downey, a spokesperson for the Robbinsdale district within the suburbs of Minneapolis, instructed CNN they’ve “offered free tampons and pads to all in ‘nongendered’ pupil restrooms and ladies’ restrooms for grades 4 and up. They’re additionally obtainable from well being staffers. We wouldn’t have menstrual merchandise in boys’ bogs.”

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Hannity pressed Carville on utilizing the time period “unlawful alien” to explain migrants coming throughout the southern border and coming into the USA.

As seen from an aerial view, Texas Nationwide Guard troops watch over greater than 1,000 immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande in a single day from Mexico on December 18, 2023 in Eagle Go, Texas. (Photograph by John Moore/Getty Pictures) (John Moore)

“Brother, I’d name somebody… I do not assume any human being is an unlawful, however I do assume it is best to have border legal guidelines. I would not thoughts saying that they are undocumented, however I simply would not name one other human being an alien,” mentioned Carville.

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“That is simply…perhaps that is the Catholic in me. I do not know, however I do not just like the time period alien utilized to a different human being.”