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Over the weekend, the Huffington Post broke disturbing news on Colorado 7th’s GOP candidate Tim Reichert. The candidate maintains an obsession with women’s reproductive freedom that seeps into his entire worldview, becoming the boogeyman of all our social and economic ills. He deems birth control ‘the most fundamental threat to the West’ and insists abortion is a human sacrifice to demons.
“Instead of acknowledging the reforms needed to make life better for working families, Tim Reichert lays blame squarely at the feet of women’s rights. His radical, anti-freedom views could not be more out of step with Colorado voters,” said DCCC spokesperson Maddy Mundy. “Coloradans have consistently affirmed their support for reproductive freedom and they’ll do it again when they send a champion of choice to represent Colorado’s 7th in Congress this November.”
Read more of the extreme views Tim Reichert has hidden from the voters of Colorado’s 7th Congressional District below:
The Huffington Post: GOP Congressional Candidate Believes ‘Abortion Is A Human Sacrifice’ To Demons
By Alanna Vagianos
April 1, 2022
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Reichert holds extreme views on abortion, birth control and other reproductive health care issues, arguing in published articles and presentations that contraception irrevocably harms women by destroying the institution of marriage.
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And it’s an issue that he has, not surprisingly, avoided talking about on the campaign trail in a cycle where Republicans are trying to win back suburban women.
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Past statements uncovered by HuffPost suggest that Reichert believes abortion is murder and birth control is deeply detrimental to society because it increases infidelity in marriage.
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As an economist, Reichert has given presentations and written several opinion articles arguing that contraception harms women economically and psychologically because birth control makes it harder for women to get married. In a 2010 opinion article titled “Bitter Pill,” Reichert wrote that contraception is “socially damaging,” “increases the incidence of infidelity” and is “deeply sexist in nature.”
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Reichert repeatedly referred to the work of sociologists ― or “intellectual giants,” as he called them ― who believed that “the most fundamental threat to the West” was contraception.
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If elected to Congress, Reichert would likely contribute to the federal attacks on abortion care. The constitutional right to abortion, established in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, is now in peril, since a 2018 Mississippi law is likely to gut or overturn Roe in the coming months.
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