Today, HuffPost dropped a bombshell report revealing a disturbing and hateful rhetoric that David Schweikert directed at women who receive abortion care.
In a 2022 interview, Schweikert said that women who have abortions “hate the country,” “hate that baby,” and “only care about themselves.”
Schweikert has had no problem acting on his anti-choice extremism. After co-sponsoring a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the woman SIX times, the vulnerable congressman bragged that he would “continue to vote anti-abortion in Congress.”
And despite “facing a tough reelection bid,” Schweikert has doubled down on “his plans to vote against” Arizona’s abortion referendum – which polling shows 73% of Arizonans support.
DCCC Spokesperson Lauryn Fanguen:
“David Schweikert attacking and demonizing women’s health care decisions isn’t just out-of-touch – it’s dangerously misogynistic. Arizonans know they can’t trust Schweikert to represent them in Congress, and that’s why they are ready to vote him and his extreme anti-abortion agenda out in 12 days.”
Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) said in a newly unearthed interview from 2022 that women who have abortions “hate the country” and “hate that baby” because they know if they carried their pregnancies to term, it would mean responsibility.
Schweikert, who is currently facing a tough reelection bid, made his comments in July 2022 on a conservative radio program, “The Seth Leibsohn Show.” During the interview, host Seth Leibsohn referenced a woman in a House oversight committee hearing who had recently testified that having an abortion was the best decision she’d made and “an act of self-love.”
“It’s about self. It’s about self. It’s about self,” said the Arizona congressman. “And you wonder why they hate the country because they only care about themselves.”
He continued, “They hate their neighbors because they only care about themselves. They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility.”
Schweikert’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
In another interview on Leibsohn’s show… He also claimed that women who don’t have children and aren’t married just vote for candidates based on what’s “trendy.”
Schweikert’s criticisms of women who don’t have children echo the sentiments of Trump’s 2024 vice presidential running mate, Republican JD Vance, who has offended women with past comments attacking “childless cat ladies” as “miserable” and claiming they “don’t have a direct stake” in America.
Schweikert is running for reelection in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, which was newly redrawn in 2022. This region is increasingly becoming more Democratic, and the GOP congressman has been toning down his party’s rhetoric as of late, particularly on issues like abortion. Democrat Joe Biden won this district in the 2020 presidential election by 1.5%.
