During A Recent WGAL Interview, Trump Suggested States May Monitor Women’s Pregnancies
PENNSYLVANIA — Donald Trump recently told WGAL’s Barbara Barr that he was comfortable with states monitoring women’s pregnancies. As David McCormick campaigns in Lancaster, he’ll have to answer for Trump’s shocking comments.
McCormick joined Donald Trump for a donor retreat in Mar-A-Lago earlier this month — just days after Trump first suggested he was comfortable with states monitoring women’s pregnancies.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson TaNisha Cameron issued the following statement:
“McCormick has been trying to hide his dangerous anti-choice agenda that includes support for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. Now, he’ll need to answer to Pennsylvanians for Trump’s dangerous suggestion that states should monitor women’s pregnancies.”
Read More About David McCormick’s Long Record of Supporting Anti-Choice Actions:
- When asked directly in a 2022 debate whether he believed there should be exceptions for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother, McCormick responded only “in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.”
- Axios: “David McCormick…said during a debate in Harrisburg last month he’s fully against all scenarios involving abortion, apart from ‘in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.’”
- HuffPost: “McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he does not support exceptions in abortion laws for rape or incest.”
- HuffPost: “McCormick said in a May 2022 debate with Oz that he supports banning abortion with an exception only when the pregnant person’s life is in danger, and not in cases of rape or incest.”
- WESA: There was no “pushback from the McCormick campaign.”
- McCormick said “we have to change the law on life” during a 2022 campaign event.
- McCormick repeatedly praised the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft overturning Roe as a “huge victory” and “huge step forward.”
- McCormick’s 2022 campaign website said he was “staunchly pro-life.”
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