From Special Report with Bret Baier | Wednesday, May 30, 2012
On whether there is a generalized anti-incumbent sentiment in 2012:
I disagree that this is some kind of anti-incumbent mood. There have 15 incumbents defeated in these primary races… but of the 15, 11 were in districts that pitted incumbent against incumbent, a redistricting event where the [two] districts were collapsed into one. So it’s preordained that an incumbent would win and one would lose….
I think to the extent there is anti-incumbency here, it is ideological. It is on the right. It’s the continuation of… 2010, the Tea Party against establishment. We saw that in Texas’ [senate primary on Tuesday].
On a House bill that would make it a federal offense to perform an abortion based on the gender of the fetus:
You have to ask yourself, how could a feminist oppose this kind of legislation? After all, gender selection is the ultimate in gender discrimination. It’s the killing of a female – and it’s almost always a female — in utero, and you would expect a huge protest.
Here it’s probably a very small issue, although it’s a huge issue in India and China where it’s done on a mass scale. The normal ratio is 105 female children to boys, and in China and India it’s 110, 115, which creates huge social imbalance, and it’s unbelievably unjust and sexist.
So why would a feminist oppose it? The reason is because of our odd politics, because of the Supreme Court ruling [Roe v. Wade] which makes it impossible to have a debate about abortion itself. We have to have debates on the periphery. And liberals are going to oppose this because they are afraid it’s a crack in door, that if you were to [place] this kind of restriction on abortion, there will be other restrictions as well…
It’s a weird debate [that] puts people in extremely hypocritical positions.