CNN’s Jim Acosta Pulls Plug On Heated Interview With Anti-Abortion Activist After Just 1 Minute

CNN’s Jim Acosta ended an interview with an anti-abortion activist after she made false claims about medical abortion, marking the second time in a week a CNN anchor cut an interview short.

While discussing the Supreme Court’s now-public decision allowing abortions to be included in emergency care, Acosta spoke to Kristan Hawkins, president of Students For Life of America. Hawkins was not in favor of the decision, but also brought up the Supreme Court’s ruling that allowed access to mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill. However, once she started making dubious claims about the pill — which is FDA approved for medical abortions — Acosta had to correct her, and she got testy:

Acosta: What’s your reaction to this decision?

Hawkins: Sure. Well, I think President [Donald Trump] and the GOP needs to take note. The Biden administration continues to make the case to weaponize federal agencies to make abortion a federal issue. But we also see a silver lining in this decision today. If Idaho, while this is tragic, saying Idaho must allow for abortions to prevent infertility, future infertility, the FDA must now change its policy too to do the same. Given their no-test online distribution scheme of chemical abortion pills, which we know harm women’s future fertility, as 15 percent of women of our population are RH negative, and there is no testing now because of the Biden administration and their FDA on these dangerous chemical abortion pills that she’s having these pill abortions. She’s not being tested for RH negative status–

Acosta: Haven’t the experts said that mifepristone is safe for women to use?

Hawkins: Ask any woman who’s RH negative.

Acosta: But haven’t the experts said–

Hawkins: Ask any woman who’s RH negative. Ask any woman. Excuse me? Ask someone who’s been pregnant, sir! When you’re pregnant, one of the first things they do is they test for RH negative status. Because if you have a miscarriage, if you give birth–

Acosta: No, Miss Hawkins–

Hawkins: If you get in an accident–

Acosta: I have to–

Hawkins: If you have an abortion, you have to be treated immediately.

Acosta: I’m sorry, mifepristone has been proven to be safe. It’s been that way for years. But thank you for coming on. We appreciate it.

Hawkins: No, it actually hasn’t–

Acosta: We want to go to a quick break. Thank you very much. We’ll be right back.

Watch the video above via CNN.

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