Ex-ESPN host and Donald Trump supporter Sage Steele gets into heated abortion argument on Piers Morgan show

Former ESPN host Sage Steele became embroiled in a heated debate about abortion on Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” show this week.

Steele, who left ESPN last year after settling a lawsuit with the network, appeared on the talk show Thursday night to discuss abortion rights ahead of this month’s U.S. elections.

During the debate, the television host and Donald Trump supporter claimed that there are currently no laws preventing babies from being aborted when they are born, an accusation that was challenged by political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.

‘Have things changed? Yes,” Steele said. ‘But there are plenty of states where this is possible, where there are no restrictions [abort] until a baby is born, and I think you’ll be fine with that.”

Cohen then asked which states allow such abortions, before Steele cited Colorado and Minnesota as examples.

“Give us the proof,” he added when the discussion turned sour. ‘There are a lot of viewers. We would like 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 definitely happened before.”

Steele has made her political stance public in recent months after joining Trump’s campaign trail ahead of his election battle with Kamala Harris.

The 51-year-old has not been afraid to discuss her conservative views since leaving ESPN, which she says censored her freedom of speech.

Her initial suspension from the network came about in part because of her comments about former President Barack Obama, after she stated that she didn’t like him calling himself black because, like her, he has a white mother.

Steele also moderated one of Trump’s town halls last month, where the Republican candidate awkwardly called her the wrong name.

“Let’s have some fun, Paige,” Trump said immediately as his live town hall was about to begin. The Harris campaign immediately released the clip.

Steele joined Donald Trump’s campaign trail ahead of the US elections later this month

The television anchor left ESPN in August 2023 after 16 years with the sports media giant

Elections for seats on state Supreme Courts, which once attracted little attention, have become prominent abortion battlegrounds since the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which upended the procedure across the country. country legalized.

That ruling effectively moved the fight over reproductive rights to the states, clearing the way for thirteen conservative states to ban abortion and legislatures in other states to severely restrict abortion. It has also prompted voters in four states to pass initiatives enshrining the right to abortion in state constitutions, with similar measures on the ballot 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 in elections for their seats — something that has historically attracted far less attention and fewer voters than presidential and other higher-ranking races. the electoral list.

Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue are focusing on judicial races in Michigan and Ohio, two of 33 states across the country where Supreme Court seats will be up for election in the Nov. 5 election, either through competitive elections or through votes to retain appointed lawyers.

Advocacy groups are also pouring money into races in states like Montana and North Carolina, where both parties are laying the groundwork for future electoral battles to tilt the power of the courts, and Arizona, where two Republican-appointed judges who upheld an 1864 abortion ban have raised hopes cherished to keep their seats.