Kamala Harris stumbles on question about abortion limits: 'She doesn't answer'

Social media users were frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris after she refused to answer when she believed there should be limits on abortion during an interview on Sunday.

Speaking with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan, Harris was asked about her thoughts on a federal law to codify abortion rights. While the vice president insisted a majority of Americans were in support, she was less emphatic about limits.

"What is it that you believe? I mean, what week of pregnancy should abortion access be cut off?" Brennan asked.

"We need to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade," Harris began. "We're not trying to do something new—"

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Brennan interrupted, "Well, that was nebulous, because it was about viability, which could be anywhere between 20 to 24 weeks—"

"No, no, no, no, no. Let me be very clear," Harris pushed back.

"That's, that was in the Women's Health Protection Act that the White House also endorsed—" Brennan explained.

Harris concluded, "Let me be very clear. From day one, the president has been clear, I have been clear. We need to put back the protections that are in Roe v. Wade into law. Since the Supreme Court took it, Congress has the power and ability to pass legislation to put those protections back in law and Joe Biden will sign that bill. So, that is what we want."

Harris’ efforts were noticed by X users who questioned why she refused to give a definitive answer.

"Harris is directly asked at what point does she support abortion, up until what week of pregnancy. She doesn't answer," The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller remarked.

"She aligns with Virginia’s extremist progressive candidates — 40 weeks," Glenn Youngkin deputy communications director Rob Damschen concluded.

Former Maryland Lt. Governor candidate Gordana Schifanelli wrote, "For some bizarre reason Kamala Harris is repeating herself 5 times and not answering the question. And no, my state a Maryland does not have any ‘cut off’ date for abortion."

The Post Millennial editor-in-chief Libby Emmons asked, "So.... when does she support abortion up until?"

"’We need to restore Roe’ literally just means abortion with zero restrictions/limits. Kamala knows it, you know it, we all know it," former Ohio GOP employee Lizzie Marbach argued.

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Brennan continually asked, noting that Republicans have accused Democrats of supporting abortion up until the moment of birth. Though Harris called the accusation "ridiculous" and a "mischaracterization of the point," she repeatedly avoided conceding when there should be limits on abortions.

"But does it need to be specific in terms of defining where that guarantee goes up to and where it does not, at which week of pregnancy?" Brennan asked.

"We need to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade," Harris said.

Later on, Brennan pressed harder, asking whether she needed "to be more precise" regarding abortion rights.

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"I am being precise," Harris insisted. "We need to put into law the protections of Roe v. Wade. And that is about going back to where we were before the Dobbs decision."

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley may have been pleased at the line of questioning. At the first Republican primary debate last month, she challenged the media specifically to nail down the Biden-Harris position on what limits, if any, they supported on abortion.

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Suicidologist offers ways for 'increasing hope and decreasing hopelessness' in suicide spike

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and Dr. David Jobes hopes to offer an alternative to hospital stays and medically assisted suicide.

"I think it needs to be thoughtfully done. And I think just because someone's depressed and lonely that they should not be necessarily assisted in their suicide. So to me, it's obviously very controversial. And for me, I'm focused on the people who are struggling, who we can help with, interventions like mine and the other interventions that are in the field. So I'm about giving people second and third and fourth chances that haven't quite decided that this is the thing they should do. So that tends to be my focus," Jobes told Fox News Digital.

Jobes is the founder of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) program with over 30 years of experience in clinical psychology. He explained that rather than focus on medication, his intervention training focuses on recognizing "drivers" behind suicide like a lost job or relationship.

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"In our intervention, we target and treat those drivers, and we don't necessarily eradicate them. We shift them in such a way that they feel like maybe I don't have to kill myself. And so it's just a just noticeable difference that I come in looking at suicide this way as my only solution and after six or eight sessions and now looking at it this way. And what we find is the biggest effect in CAMS is increasing hope and decreasing hopelessness. And we like that finding because when there's hope, there's always a way that people can find a life worth living or purpose of meaning," Jobes said.

CAMS’s website describes the intervention as "a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a patient’s suicidal risk and "a flexible approach that can be used across theoretical orientations and disciplines for a wide range of suicidal patients across treatment settings and different treatment modalities."

Jobes emphasized that many hospitals and clinics are too focused on treating "mental disorders" rather than suicidal ideation.

"Most hospital stays are very brief… They're focused on mental disorders and not necessarily on suicide risk, and that the primary intervention in a hospital setting is medication. And interesting, medication, ironically, has not been proven to be effective necessarily with suicidal ideation attempt behaviors," Jobes said. 

By contrast, he said, "In my intervention, we asked the patient, ‘What makes you want to kill yourself?’ And that's what we target and treat and intervention in. Overwhelmingly, what we see in the research is that people are suicidal because of their relationships or what they do or their self-esteem or lack thereof. And those are actually really treatable issues. And we see that in the clinical trials across the age ranges and in different settings and different populations." 

In light of National Suicide Prevention Day, Dr. Jobes encouraged more efforts to not only raise awareness but encourage the proper treatment.

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"The idea is that you can be a lifesaving agent in this person's life to get in the proper treatment, the suicide-focused care that I've been talking about that could actually get them through a really dark moment and pursue a life worth living, a purpose of meaning. And that's the goal of suicide prevention," Jobes concluded.

Jobes also previously served as a research consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has been a consultant to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Mental Health, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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