For Immediate Release
Friday, August 25th, 2023
Contact: Olivia Taylor-Puckett, otpuckett@azdem.org
This Women’s Equality Day, Remember Kari Lake Believes Women “Aren’t Equal To Men”
ARIZONA — Ahead of Women’s Equality Day, here are the facts about Kari Lake’s record of denying women’s equality and right to make their own decisions about their health care:
Kari supports total bans on abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother and supports throwing doctors in prison for providing health care services.
- Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Lake said, “I joined Congressman Gosar in praying for God’s guidance to the Supreme Court and an end to this national disgrace created under Roe v Wade.”
- Lake said “abortion is the ultimate sin,” that it is an “execution.”
- Lake said “I would very much support banning those types of abortion pills,” in reference to medical abortions, which have been proven safe.
- When asked about the Texas abortion ban, an extreme law that allows for abortion “bounty hunters,” Lake said, “I will sign that in a heartbeat.”
- “I am pro-life 100%.“
- “I am pro-life 100%.”
- “I’m 100% pro-life and I’d like to see, I’d like to see no abortions…”
- “I am pro-life and I am 100% pro-life.”
Kari Lake has stated multiple times that she doesn’t believe women are equal to men:
- In a June 2021 speech to young women Lake said, “We know that God did not create us to be equal to men.”
- In a June 2021 interview on “Backyard Politics,” Lake repeated that “We are not equal to men.”
- In a November 2021 interview with the “American Monetary Association,” Lake reiterated that women are “being told […] to strive, to be equal to men. And you know what? We aren’t equal to men.”
- In an August 2022 interview on “Louder With Crowder” deleted due to violations of YouTube’s misinformation standards, Lake tells Steven Crowder “God did not create us to be equal to men.”
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