CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019: on Abortion

Bernie Sanders: Voted for spending bills with Hyde Amendment, but pro-choice

SANDERS: Sometimes, in a large bill, you have to vote for things you don't like. But I think my record as being literally 100 percent pro-choice is absolutely correct. If you believe, as I do, that a woman's right to control her own body is a constitutional right, then that must apply to all women, including low-income women. That is what I have always believed, and that is what I believe right now.

Bernie Sanders: Right to abortion applies to low income women as well

A: Sometimes, in a large bill, you have to vote for things you don't like. If you believe that a woman's right to control her own body is a constitutional right, then that must apply to all women, including low-income women. That is what I have always believed. I don't have a whole lot of litmus tests regarding Supreme Court nominees, but I do have one on this issue, and that I will never, never nominate somebody to the Supreme Court who is not 100% defending Roe vs. Wade.

Steve Bullock: Women should decide, not government

A: I think that the Supreme Court settled this 45 years ago. And it's not my decision to be making what the decision that a woman needs to make, in consultation with her doctor and her family and her faith, if she so chooses. I would say that life begins at viability. But it's not up to people like me to be making these decisions. It's what does an individual woman need to do with her body and with her health care? Those aren't decisions that I should be making.