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Today, Arizona became the latest state to enact an abortion ban as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed the legislature’s 15-week ban into law. This onerous restriction will put safe, legal abortion out of reach for thousands of Arizona women, and shows the high stakes of the 2022 midterms.
DCCC Spokesperson Monica Robinson:
“The draconian Republican abortion ban in Arizona shows why we urgently need champions in Congress who will fight tooth and nail to protect reproductive rights. Women deserve the freedom to make their own health care decisions without interference from politicians – but today Arizonans were robbed of that right. Every single GOP congressional candidate on the ballot in Arizona will have to answer for their anti-choice records this November.”
Republican congressional candidates across Arizona have dangerous, harmful records on reproductive rights and are out of step with the 79% of Arizona voters who believe that abortion should be legal and that the government should not interfere with that decision. They can’t be trusted to protect abortion access:
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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.
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