| According to new reporting, vulnerable Republican Mike Lawler spent his weekend fundraising for Care Net Pregnancy Center of Rockland, a deceptive clinic in his district known for taking advantage of vulnerable women in need of health care and misinforming them about their reproductive health.
But this isn’t the first time Lawler has supported these dangerous clinics. Throughout his career, Lawler has repeatedly promoted pregnancy crisis centers – touting their fundraisers, cozying up to their leadership, and voting to fund them with taxpayer dollars. In fact, Lawler attended the same fundraiser for Care Net two years ago.
In reality, Lawler has praised the disastrous overturning of Roe v. Wade, “believes that the right to abortion should be reserved to a tiny subset of American women,” voted twice to restrict abortion care for service members and their families, and voted to strip away abortion access in New York earlier this year.
DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“From celebrating when women across the country had their reproductive freedom ripped away to voting in favor of ‘defunding’ Planned Parenthood and supporting fake abortion clinics that intentionally mislead and lie to women in crisis, Mike Lawler has spent his entire career attacking reproductive freedom – and it won’t bode well for him in 2026.”
American Journal News: GOP Rep. Mike Lawler raises money for radical anti-abortion group
- New York Rep. Mike Lawler spent the weekend raising money for a radical anti-abortion group, breaking a campaign pledge to take a “mainstream position” on reproductive rights.
- Lawler posted photos from the 39th Annual Love Life Fundraising Banquet on his social media accounts on Oct. 20. The event was a benefit for the Care Net Pregnancy Center of Rockland, which is in Lawler’s district.
- Pregnancy centers, sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers, are nonprofits that try to dissuade women from having abortions, often by spreading medical disinformation. Critics say these centers pose as legitimate health care providers to lure in vulnerable people.
- Lawler attended the same fundraiser in October 2023, where he posed for a photo with the center’s executive director.
- A few months later, Lawler voted for the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, which would have prohibited states from limiting the federal funds available to pregnancy centers. It passed the Republican-controlled House but was blocked in the Democratic-led Senate.
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