Senator Rand Paul at a campaign event in Milford, N.H., on Wednesday.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky maintained his aggressive approach to fielding tough questions on Wednesday, suggesting that the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee should have to say when it was permissible to kill “a seven-pound baby in the uterus” before he would discuss when abortions should be allowed.
“We always seem to have the debate way over here on what are the exact details of exceptions or when it starts,” Mr. Paul said at a campaign event in Milford, N.H. “You go out and you ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she’s O.K. with killing a seven-pound baby that was just not yet born.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Paul, in an interview with The Associated Press, declined to say what exceptions he would support if abortion were banned.
The questions followed a testy interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that kicked off Mr. Paul’s first full day as a presidential candidate on a contentious note.
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, responded to Mr. Paul’s challenge by saying in a statement that she supported letting women and their doctors make decisions about abortion without government involvement.
“Now your turn, Senator Paul,” she said. “We know you want to allow government officials like yourself to make this decision for women รข€” but do you stand by your opposition to any exceptions, even when it comes to rape, incest or life of the mother?”
Referring to a recent television interview in which Mr. Paul tried tried to silence a female news anchor, Ms. Wasserman Schultz said she would appreciate it if he would respond without “shushing” her.
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