Pennsylvania Voters Rejected the Dangerous Anti-Choice Pennsylvania Judges McCormick Endorsed
McCormick Supports an Abortion Ban With No Exceptions for Rape or Incest
PENNSYLVANIA — Last night’s election in Pennsylvania showed David McCormick’s long track record of support for a dangerous abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest is out of step with Pennsylvanians. All of the dangerous anti-choice Pennsylvania judges McCormick endorsed were loudly rejected by Pennsylvania voters.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson Maddy McDaniel issued the following statement:
“Last night Pennsylvanians rejected extreme Republican candidates with dangerous positions on abortion. Next year, they’ll do the same to David McCormick, who supports an abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest and would be a vote for a national abortion ban in the U.S. Senate.”
McCormick has a long record supporting an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest:
- When asked directly in a debate last year 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.’”
- Huffington Post: “McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he does not support exceptions in abortion laws for rape or incest.”
- Huffington Post: “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.”
- Before the Dobbs decision leaked, McCormick said he would be a “stalwart opponent of abortion.”
- 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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