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Access to safe, legal abortion in America took a devastating blow last night with POLITICO reporting on a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade and open the door for 26 states to immediately move to ban the right to abortion. Arizona Republicans are complicit in this all-out assault on women’s freedoms.
Arizonans need to know the Republican congressional candidates’ dangerous records on women’s reproductive freedom and health care:
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AZ-01: Rep. David Schweikert has an extensive anti-choice record, including opposing a woman’s right to choose, repeatedly voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voting against the Women’s Health Protection Act, and repeatedly voting to repeal protections barring insurance companies from charging women more than men for the same care and requiring coverage of maternity care and birth control.
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AZ-02: Walt Blackman sponsored a bill that would have allowed prosecutors to charge women who get abortions, and the doctors who perform them, with murder.
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AZ-02: Eli Crane praised the Supreme Court’s decision not to strike down Texas’s abortion bill, which bans abortion before many people even know they’re pregnant and greenlit a bounty on anyone who helps a woman get one.
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AZ-04: Just a few months ago, Tanya Wheeless promoted and supported the March for Life hosted by the Arizona Life Coalition, an organization dedicated to “preventing and ending abortion.”
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AZ-04: Kelly Cooper voiced support for the Republican abortion ban in Arizona, claiming that getting an abortion is “quite literally ending a life.”
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AZ-06: Juan Ciscomani touted his support for restricting abortion as part of his campaign platform, and he attended the Tucson March For Life in January.
Make no mistake – access to abortion is on the line this November and hinges on control of Congress. Just hours before the draft Supreme Court opinion was leaked, the Washington Post reported that congressional Republicans are working on a “push for a strict nationwide ban on the procedure if Republicans retake power in Washington.”
DCCC Spokesperson Monica Robinson:
“The stakes in this election could not be higher: Electing Arizona Republicans will stack Congress with politicians who support their party’s decades-long dream of ripping away women’s freedom to make their own decisions about their bodies.”
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