Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to say Tuesday whether her children were human beings before they were born.
A reporter from MRC TV questioned the Florida congresswoman about her children backstage at the first Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wasserman Schultz, who has three children, repeatedly ducked questions about whether or not her kids were, in her opinion, "human beings" before she gave birth to them.
"You know, I believe that every woman has the right to make their own reproductive choices," Wasserman Schultz told the journalist.
"I had the right to make my own reproductive choices, which I was glad--a right which I was proud to have," she replied when the inquiry was repeated.
When asked to provide either a yes or no answer, the DNC chair said only that her children are human beings "today."
"They’re human beings today and I’m glad that I had the opportunity to make my own reproductive choices, a right that every woman has and should maintain," Wasserman Schultz said.
Wasserman Schultz is one of many Democratic lawmakers to defend Planned Parenthood as the federally funded abortion provider faces scrutiny for allegedly selling aborted baby body parts.