‘All Due Respect…’: Jake Tapper Reminds Republican That Voters in His State Just Approved Abortion Rights He Says ‘Go Too Far’

CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a skeptical response to Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), who blamed non-Ohioans for Tuesday’s referendum in which Buckeye State voters enshrined abortion rights into the state’s constitution. The host reminded his guest of the result.

The provision allows abortion until fetal viability, which is around the 23rd week of pregnancy. However, conservatives argue that the language is too vague and the exceptions are too many.

“Were you surprised at the results and do you think your party is just out of touch on this issue from what the American people want?” Tapper asked Turner on Wednesday’s edition of The Lead.

“Well, I think what happened – and whenever you take a constitutional provision like this and write it into a state’s constitution – it’s fortunate, especially since it’s being written by people outside of the state,” the lawmaker responded. “They have different goals and objectives, and I think many of them have values that don’t even represent the people who are voting to pass it.”

Turner added that the new measure “does go too far.”

The host seemed perplexed.

“All due respect, seven out of seven times since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, seven out of seven, people in states such as Montana and Kentucky and Ohio, have voted in favor of abortion rights,” Tapper said. “And maybe you don’t like who wrote it, but Ohioans voted for it.”

“No, my point was I don’t like what it says,” Turner replied. “And I think most Ohioans, in the end, when they see the application of these, what I think are left provisions, even you’re pro-choice, there are limits and there are things that I think people will be very concerned about. They’ll be the outcomes of these. But that’ll be part of the democratic debate that we have.”

Watch above via CNN.