Nikki Haley's Contradictory Stances on Abortion and Immigration

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has distanced herself from calls for a federal abortion ban, saying that to promise such a universal barrier to terminations would be to lie to the American people. Instead, she said she supported the right of each state to set its own abortion limits. Haley, who is firmly in the anti-abortion wing of the Republican party, is attempting to soften that image by detaching herself from talk of a federal ban. She launched her campaign in February, presenting herself as a president for a “new generation”.