Nick Begich: Abortion, Reproductive Freedom, and Women’s and Gender Equality Highlights

  • Despite claiming he believed in letting states decide their abortion policies, Begich supported a federal abortion ban in 2024.
  • Begich opposed allowing Medicaid to cover infertility services “like IVF.”
  • Begich “Celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision” overturning Roe V. Wade.
  • Begich said he would “vote to end federal Medicaid funding that pays for abortion services in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is endangered by her pregnancy.”
    • Begich said he supported allowing abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the mother, yet stated this was “something that [he] will continue to consider.
  • Begich opposed “making mifepristone, a drug used in medical abortions, available at pharmacies.”
  • Begich was endorsed by anti-abortion extremist Freedom Caucus members Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, And Byron Donalds.
    • Jordan, Perry, and Donalds cosponsored the 2021 “Life at Conception Bill,” which made no exceptions for rape or incest and excluded protections for IVF and birth control.
    • Jordan sponsored an ultrasound informed consent act which forced patients to listen to a doctor’s narration of an embryo or fetus during an ultrasound
    • Jordan accused a 10 year old rape victim of lying shortly following Ohio’s trigger law outlawing abortion past six weeks.

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