Former ESPN host Sage Steele became embroiled in a heated debate over abortion on Piers Morgan’s ‘Uncensored’ show this week.
Steele, who left ESPN last year after settling a lawsuit with the network, appeared on Thursday night’s edition of the talk show to discuss abortion rights ahead of this month’s U.S. election.
During the debate, the television host and Donald Trump supporter stated that there are currently no laws preventing babies from being aborted when they are born, an accusation that was questioned by political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.
‘Have things changed? Yes,” Steele said. “But there are a lot of states that have no restrictions on where you can (abort) until the time the baby is born, and I guess that’s fine with you.”
Cohen then asked which states allow such abortions to be performed, before Steele named Colorado and Minnesota as examples.
Former ESPN Host Sage Steele Had Heated Debate About Abortion on Piers Morgan’s ‘Uncensored’
“Give us the proof,” he added when the argument turned bitter. ‘There are many spectators. “We would love to know where babies are executed after they are born in Colorado.”
“I just told you,” she replied. “And I don’t know how you define executed, but left to die… that’s happened before.”
Steele has made his political stance known in recent months after joining Trump’s campaign in the run-up to his election battle with Kamala Harris.
The 51-year-old has not been afraid to discuss her conservative views since leaving ESPN, who she claims censored her free speech.
Her initial suspension from the network was due in part to her comments about former President Barack Obama, after she claimed she didn’t like him calling himself black because, like her, he has a white mother.
Steele also served as a moderator at one of Trump’s town hall meetings last month, where the Republican candidate awkwardly called her the wrong name.
“Let’s have some fun, Paige,” Trump said just as his live town hall began. Harris’ campaign immediately blew up the clip.
Steele joined Donald Trump’s campaign ahead of the US election later this month.
The television host left ESPN in August 2023 after 16 years at the sports media giant.
Elections for state supreme court seats that once attracted little attention have become major battlegrounds over abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning its landmark Roe v. Wade who legalized the procedure throughout the country.
That ruling essentially moved the fight for reproductive rights to the states, clearing the way for 13 conservative states to ban abortion and the legislatures of others to severely restrict it. It also prompted voters in four states to approve initiatives enshrining abortion rights in state constitutions, with similar measures on the ballots in 10 states this year.
State supreme courts have the final say on the interpretation of state constitutions and new constitutional amendments, significantly raising the stakes for their caucus elections, something that in the past attracted far less attention and fewer voters than presidential elections. and other more important races on the ballot.
Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue are targeting judicial races in Michigan and Ohio, two of the 33 states in the country where Supreme Court seats are on the ballot in the Nov. 5 elections, as either through competitive elections or votes to retain appointed jurists.
Advocacy groups are also pouring money into elections in states like Montana and North Carolina, where both parties are laying the groundwork for future election battles to tilt the makeup of the courts, and Arizona, where two Republican-appointed judges who backed an abortion ban of 1864 hope to keep their seats.