Former ESPN anchor 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 Thursday night’s edition of the talk show to discuss abortion rights ahead of this month’s US election.
During the debate, the television host and Donald Trump supporter claimed there are currently no laws preventing babies from being aborted when they are born, an accusation which was challenged by political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.
‘Have things changed? Yes,’ Steele said. ‘But there are plenty of states that have zero restrictions where you can [abort] up to the moment a baby’s born, and I guess you’re OK with that.’
Cohen then asked which states allow such abortions to play out, before Steele named Colorado and Minnesota as examples.
Ex-ESPN host Sage Steele had a heated debate about abortion on Piers Morgan’s ‘Uncensored’
‘Give us the proof,’ he added as the discussion turned sour. ‘There are a lot of viewers. We would love to know where babies are being executed after they’re born in Colorado.’
‘I just told you,’ she replied. ‘And I don’t know how you define executed, but left to die… that has absolutely happened before.’
Steele has made her political stance known in recent months after joining Trump’s campaign trail in the lead-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 claimed censored her free speech.
Her initial suspension from the network came about in part due to her comments about former president Barack Obama, after she stated that she did not like him calling himself black because, like herself, he has a white mother.
Steele also served as a moderator at one of Trump’s town halls last month, where the Republican candidate awkwardly called her the wrong name.
‘Let’s have a little fun, Paige,’ Trump said right as his live town hall was set to begin. The Harris campaign immediately blasted out the clip.
Steele joined Donald Trump’s campaign trail ahead of the US election later this month
The television anchor left ESPN in August 2023 following 16 years with the sports media giant
Elections for seats on state supreme courts that once drew little attention have become prominent abortion battlegrounds since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision reversing its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide.
That ruling essentially moved the fight over reproductive rights to the states, clearing the way for 13 conservative states to ban abortion and legislatures in 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 ballots in 10 states this year.
State supreme courts have the final word on interpreting state constitutions and new constitutional amendments, significantly raising the stakes for elections to their benches – something that in the past drew far less attention and fewer voters than presidential and other races higher on the ballot.
Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue are targeting judicial races in Michigan and Ohio, two of the 33 states nationwide in which supreme court seats are on the ballot in the Nov. 5 election either through competitive elections or votes to retain appointed jurists.
Advocacy groups are also pouring money into races in states including Montana and North Carolina, where both parties are laying the groundwork for future electoral battles to tilt the courts’ makeup, and Arizona, where two Republican-appointed justices who upheld a 1864 abortion ban hope to retain their seats.
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