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EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Former Trump White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is leading the charge to overhaul her party\u2019s abortion strategy heading into the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

The top Republican strategist spoke with Fox News Digital after meeting with a number of GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to discuss what she argues is the need to promote contraception and reach a consensus on the abortion issue lest Democrats continue to use it as a \u2018turnout intensifier\u2019 in November.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think pro-lifers have to be very mindful to speak about two people being involved in an abortion \u2014 the baby and the mother. So, I\u2019m urging opinion leaders and office holders and all their decision makers, as well as candidates, to speak with conviction and compassion. That\u2019s the piece that\u2019s missing,\u2019 Conway said when asked about the meetings.<\/p>\n

\u2018The overwhelming data in contraception polling is meant to work in tandem with, not in lieu of, the pro-life abortion messaging,\u2019 she said, referring to polling showing widespread support for contraceptives across the country.<\/p>\n

Conway\u2019s effort to move Republicans toward a \u2018winning\u2019 strategy comes as more states have held abortion-related ballot initiatives after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year and as Democrats continue to claim GOP lawmakers and candidates want to ban abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strategists and operatives from both parties argue the issue has driven more voter turnout for Democrats in state and local elections across the country, evidenced by better margins for the Democratic position in those initiatives and other coinciding races.<\/p>\n

Conway says such ballot initiatives haven\u2019t gone in Republicans\u2019 favor because the left has pushed such measures under the guise of \u2018reproductive freedom for all,\u2019 combined with the lack of exceptions for rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother in efforts to limit, or ban, abortion.<\/p>\n

\u2018To speak with conviction and compassion, to reflect consensus, to move hearts and minds, means that if you want to discuss a 15-week national minimum standard, then you are reflecting consensus,\u2019 she said, citing statistics that show a strong majority of Americans fall within the range that there should be no abortion at all and no abortions past 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2018When you do that, you get up to 71% of America, and that reflects consensus. But it also shows conviction and compassion, because in 15 weeks, a woman knows she\u2019s pregnant and the baby can feel pain,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Conway argued that if Republicans could reach such a consensus, they would be \u2018smoking out\u2019 Democrats who have \u2018radical, extreme, out-of-step, out-of-sync positions on abortion, anyone, anytime, anywhere, anyhow.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added, however, that it was a \u2018mistake\u2019 to say all Democrats support abortion until the moment of birth, citing focus groups and polling that show the consensus across the country is against partial birth abortion and late-term abortion, especially after looking at the science showing babies can feel pain at \u2018roughly 15 weeks.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019re against taxpayer-funded abortion. They\u2019re against sex selection abortion when a woman can learn she\u2019s pregnant in the morning, learn the sex of the baby by noon and schedule an abortion for that afternoon. Now, people will say that\u2019s not true because they don\u2019t want it to be true. That is true. What I just said to you is a fact,\u2019 Conway said.<\/p>\n

Conway also suggested a consensus, along with scientific understanding, could \u2018move the hearts and minds\u2019 of Democrats supporting late-term abortion and shift their view.<\/p>\n

\u2018When you give these shock-the-conscious anecdotes, and you couple that with warm-the-heart information, then you have a more winning message,\u2019 she said. \u2018Pro-lifers should not be ostriches, they should be peacocks. They should not bury their head in the sand. They should be very proud that they\u2019re on the right side of science and medicine and morality and common sense and consensus opinion.\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite that, Conway said she fully expects Democrats to continue claiming Republicans support banning abortion and contraception throughout the 2024 election cycle, but that, with her strategy, the GOP could get ahead of that messaging.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re getting ahead of that by showing that this is a winning issue to say that you believe that women, and yes, men, but women, who can legally access contraceptive measures are able to do that now,\u2019 she said. \u2018It is a losing formula to cede to the Democrats the women\u2019s vote, women\u2019s health, choice, women\u2019s health care. And so we\u2019re expanding what that means, and we are smoking out the Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u2018When they say, \u2018We\u2019re for women, and we\u2019re for women\u2019s health,\u2019 what they really mean is abortion. It\u2019s all a euphemism for abortion. And if you don\u2019t believe me, believe them. They cannot even condemn Hamas\u2019 rape of women, beheading and baking babies and raping women. And the reason they\u2019re not interested in that is because they\u2019re interested in one thing \u2014 abortion.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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