Monday, August 26th, 2024
ARIZONA -– In recognition of Women’s Equality Day, here are the facts about Kari Lake’s long, toxic record of denying women’s equality and rights to make their own decisions about health care:
Kari Lake has stated multiple times that she doesn’t believe women are equal to men:
- As recently as July 2024, 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.”
- 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.”
- 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 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.”
Kari supports total bans on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest and supports throwing doctors in prison for providing health care services.
- 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.
- 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 “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.”