Thursday, July 18th, 2024

ARIZONA -– Kari Lake doubled down on her belief that men and women are not equal, saying “men and women aren’t equal. We aren’t equal.” 

Kari Lake on July 14th, 2024: “I did a speech once saying that men and women aren’t equal. We aren’t equal.”

Lake’s new comment references a June 2021 speech to young women in which Lake said, “We know that God did not create us to be equal to men.” 

Kari Lake: “We know that God did not create us to be equal to men. He didn’t create us to do what the guys do.”

Kari Lake has stated multiple times that she doesn’t believe women are 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.”

Lake supports banning abortion and ripping away women’s freedom to make their own health care decisions: 

• Lake supports Arizona’s “draconian” territorial ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, saying sheriffs should enforce the ban, and lamenting that it wasn’t enforced.
  
• Lake has a yearslong, on-camera record of calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, saying abortion is “not health care,” and she “very much support[s]” banning medication abortion. 

• Lake says abortion is “killing,” “sacrifice,” “execution,” and the “ultimate sin.”