Joe Sestak in Democratic Primary Debates and news


On Abortion: Would support abortion restrictions after 24 weeks

Asked if they supported restrictions after 24 weeks--roughly when a healthy fetus can survive outside the womb, though viability varies from pregnancy to pregnancy --only Sestak said yes.

A majority endorsed a federal preclearance requirement for state abortion laws, which Kamala Harris proposed in May. Only Andrew Yang and Sestak definitively rejected it.

Source: San Juan Daily Star on˙2019 Democratic primary Nov 26, 2019

On Tax Reform: End preferential treatment of capital gains

A former admiral and a Pennsylvania congressman, Sestak has made ending corporate welfare one of his signature issues. Sestak says he wants to end the preferential tax treatment of capital gains and supports the elimination of the step-up loophole that lets the affluent transfer appreciated stock and other assets to their heirs without ever incurring a capital gains tax.
Source: The Nation magazine on 2019 Democratic primary Nov 19, 2019

The above quotations are from Democratic Primary Debates and news coverage during 2019.
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