Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
ARIZONA -– Yesterday, HuffPost reported on Kari Lake’s “clear record on” abortion – which she has been called out for lying about. While Lake will say or do anything in her power hungry quest to boost her political career, even Republicans are saying Lake “can’t be trusted in anything she says or does.”
Here’s Kari Lake’s “clear record” on abortion in her own words:
- She says her dangerous views on abortion “haven’t changed, actually.”
- She believes in “banning those types of abortion pills” in reference to medication abortions.
- She is “incredibly thrilled” about Arizona’s 1864 “draconian” territorial ban on abortion which has no exceptions for rape or incest.
- She doesn’t believe in “any” abortions and supports the Texas abortion ban that allows for abortion “bounty hunters” and has put women’s lives in danger.
- She believes that an abortion is “not a medical choice.”
- She believes that abortion is “not health care,” that it is a “sacrifice” and an “execution.”
- She calls herself “100% pro-life” and says abortion is an “execution […] pure and simple.”
By: Daniel Marans
April 2nd, 2024
Key Points:
- HuffPost reached out to the leading GOP candidates for Senate in four major swing states — Brown, Kari Lake in Arizona, Mike Rogers in Michigan and Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania — for more details on their stances on abortion rights. All four were silent on the Supreme Court case heard last week aiming to ban mifepristone, a pill now used in over 60% of American abortions. All would be expected to back the same type of conservative judges who overturned Roe v. Wade in the first place…
- Lake, a longtime local newscaster who became one of Donald Trump’s most unapologetic loyalists, has a clear record on the topic. As a candidate in June 2022, Lake celebrated the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning a federal right to abortion. In a primary debate later that month, Lake affirmed that she believes that life begins at conception, and that abortion pills should be illegal. She also said she supported a complete abortion ban known as the “territorial law,” because Arizona enacted it in 1864, when it was still a territory. Arizona re-codified the ban, which only offers an exception for the life of the mother, in 1912 after it had become a state.
- Asked at the debate whether she wanted the territorial law to take effect, or prefers a newer law banning the practice after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Lake replied, “I think the older law is going to … go into effect. That’s what I believe will happen.”
- Ted Simons, the Arizona PBS host moderating the debate, pressed for clarity: “OK, but you approve of that — at conception?”
- “I believe that life begins at conception,” Lake responded, suggesting she had no problem with the territorial law’s complete ban.
- But the scales have tilted against anti-abortion hardliners in Arizona since Lake made those remarks…
- Asked about her support for the territorial ban, Lake told ABC15 Arizona, “I haven’t changed.”…