2022 OH Senate race: on Abortion


Josh Mandel: Prohibit abortion at first sign of fetal heartbeat

[On pro-life stance]: "Josh will be the first to fight for the rights of the unborn," he states on his [2018] campaign website. "He supported legislation to prohibit abortion as soon as a fetal heartbeat could be detected."
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2022 Ohio Senate race Nov 20, 2017

Josh Mandel: Prohibit abortion at first sign of fetal heartbeat

[On abortion]: "Josh will be the first to fight for the rights of the unborn," he states on his [2018] campaign website. "He supported legislation to prohibit abortion as soon as a fetal heartbeat could be detected."
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2022 Ohio Senate race Nov 20, 2017

JD Vance: Abortion rights should be regulated by state legislatures

[Democratic opponent Rep. Tim] Ryan supports codifying the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court overturned. Vance contends the issue should be regulated by state legislatures but said he would support a "minimum national standard" for how far into a pregnancy abortions should be permitted.

Vance has previously said he supports abortion when it's necessary to save the pregnant person's life, but he's opposed to exceptions for cases of rape or incest. When asked about the case of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who got an abortion in Indiana, he said she should've been able to get an abortion if she and her family chose to do so. Then he pivoted to the man accused of raping and impregnating the girl, who is believed to be an undocumented immigrant. "That poor girl was raped by an illegal alien, somebody who should've never been in this state in the first place...if you had done your job, she would've never been raped in the first place," Vance told Ryan. "Do your job on border security."

Source: The Columbus Dispatch on 2022 Ohio Senate race Oct 10, 2022

JD Vance: Unborn babies are not inconveniences to be discarded

[FactCheck: Tim Ryan claimed that] Vance "called rape inconvenient." [Is that true?]

Vance did not directly say "rape is inconvenient." But when Vance was asked whether laws should allow people to get abortions if they were victims of rape or incest, he suggested that society should not view a pregnancy or birth resulting from rape or incest as "inconvenient." Vance added, "What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded?"

Source: PolitiFact.com Fact-Check on 2022 Ohio Senate race Oct 17, 2022

Tim Ryan: Late term abortion only when something tragic is happening

Ultimately, this needs to be a decision between the woman and her doctor. We don't support abortion at the end of term, unless there is an extraordinary circumstance, where you're eight months into a pregnancy and something very tragic is happening, where you have a room, you bought toys, you have clothing for the baby, everyone's excited, and then something tragic happens. That needs to be left up to the doctor, not J.D. Vance or Ted Cruz or anybody else. That's a very serious situation.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2022 Ohio Senate race Aug 28, 2022

Tim Ryan: Abortion rights should codify Roe v. Wade standards

Ryan supports codifying the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June. [Republican opponent J.D.] Vance contends the issue should be regulated by state legislatures but said he would support a "minimum national standard" for how far into a pregnancy abortions should be permitted.

Vance has previously said he supports abortion when it's necessary to save the pregnant person's life, but he's opposed to exceptions for cases of rape or incest. When asked about the case of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who got an abortion in Indiana, he said she should've been able to get an abortion if she and her family chose to do so. Then he pivoted to the man accused of raping and impregnating the girl. "That poor girl was raped by an illegal alien, somebody who should've never been in this state in the first place. If you had done your job, she would've never been raped in the first place," Vance told Ryan. "Do your job on border security."

Source: The Columbus Dispatch on 2022 Ohio Senate race Oct 10, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Abortion:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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