2022 PA Governor's race: on Abortion


Doug Mastriano: Fetal heartbeat bill would ban abortions after six weeks

State Sen. Doug Mastriano has already sponsored a bill that, like the Texas law, would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (about six weeks). He's using the Supreme Court's failure to halt the Texas law as a rallying point for the Pennsylvania measure.
Source: York Dispatch on 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial race Sep 23, 2021

Doug Mastriano: End any state funding to Planned Parenthood

Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Governor campaign website doug4gov.com May 18, 2022

Joe Gale: Black Lives Matter should protest atrocity of abortion

[On BLM protests]: "If the Black Lives Matter movement was really concerned about black lives mattering, those protesting me would instead be at Planned Parenthood protesting the slaughter of black children in the womb," Gale has said, claiming more than 200 Black babies are "murdered in abortion mills across America" every day. "What is truly institutional and systemic racism is the disproportionate number of innocent, unborn black lives snuffed out by the atrocity of abortion," Gale has said.
Source: Pottstown Mercury on 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial race Jul 9, 2020

Josh Shapiro: He will veto any bill that would restrict abortion rights

Abortion is health care. As Governor, Josh will defend access to reproductive health care -- and continue to defend a woman's right to choose in Pennsylvania. He will veto any bill that would restrict abortion rights, and he will expand access to reproductive care.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Governor campaign website JoshShapiro.org May 18, 2022

Josh Shapiro: I will protect Pennsylvania law allowing right to abortion

The next governor will get a bill on his desk to ban abortion, period. My opponent has said he will not only sign it, but he wants to jail doctors who perform abortions. I will veto that bill. And, in vetoing it, I will protect Pennsylvania law. What Pennsylvania law says is that, up to 23 weeks, a woman can make a decision to have an abortion. I continue to support that. And from week 24 on, if her life or health is at risk, in consultation with her doctor, she can have an abortion.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial race May 22, 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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