DAVIE, FLA. – Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., seized on remarks about abortion that his Democratic Senate opponent Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., produced in a new job interview, offering his take on why the congresswoman stopped small of providing a exact time at which she thinks abortion must not be an readily available solution.

Demings had advised CBS Miami over the weekend that she thinks in a ideal to abortion up to the issue of viability, but when asked if that meant 24 weeks, which is roughly the normal that has been utilized in the past, she would not dedicate to that mark or any other.

"My opponent will not notify you which abortions should really be unlawful," Rubio told a accumulating of religion leaders in Davie, Fla. on Thursday. "The cause why she simply cannot is you simply cannot have 100% from Prepared Parenthood and 100% from NARAL and not feel in abortion on demand from customers, taxpayer-funded, at any position in a being pregnant. At any issue."

Demings' reaction to the issue was that "women of all ages need to have the opportunity to counsel with their medical doctors," and that "a medical doctor can notify us all what the issue of viability is," instead than any legal standard.

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Sen. Marco Rubio addresses group at Florida Republican Social gathering key night time occasion in Hialeah, Fla. (Ronn Blitzer, WHD News) (WHD News)

In response, Demings' push secretary claimed in a statement to WHD News that the congresswoman "will fight to codify Roe and guard the suitable to choose," and that "Marco Rubio wants to criminalize medical doctors, and power an extremist abortion ban with no exceptions for victims of rape, incest, and human trafficking."

Demings has manufactured abortion a key component of her marketing campaign, likely so considerably as to notify an viewers at a the latest celebration that it, and constitutional rights in normal, was her number 1 problem. She has been speedy to attack Rubio for his ideal-wing posture on the concern, tweeting that the incumbent senator "is obsessed with using absent our freedoms" and "demands to go" since he "believes in abortion bans with no exceptions."

When it is accurate that Rubio has a tough-line private stance on abortion, he has claimed that he would help bans that do have constrained exceptions. On Thursday, nevertheless, he defended his situation and pushed back again against the notion that he has no concern for victims of rape or incest who may well want to get an abortion.

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Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., has attacked Sen. Marco Rubio more than his professional-life stance as the two put together to square off in November's election. (Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS) (Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS)

"I’m not listed here to explain to you that some younger woman who’s pregnant, and fearful, and fearful to notify her moms and dads, and thinks her daily life is around, and that that by some means is an straightforward circumstance. It is not," Rubio stated. "I realize that. I truly do."

He continued: "But we have a basic dilemma on this challenge and here’s what it is. You have the correct of what happens to her which she possesses from God, and the appropriate of an unborn, innocent human currently being to reside. And these rights are in conflict as legal rights often are."

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With that in head, Rubio explained that "a modern society has to make your mind up" which a person of those rights it holds as a lot more essential.

"And I just believe, with all my coronary heart, that if you’re not a culture that provides priority to lifetime previously mentioned each individual other appropriate, then you’re headed in a pretty unsafe path," he said. "Simply because as soon as you phase a foot on the highway to selecting what kind of lifetime is worthy of security and what kind of everyday living is not deserving of defense, effectively where does that highway direct you?"