The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: 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
Shontel Brown:
It's important that Congress make Roe the law of the land
[On reproductive rights]: "It's important that Congress make Roe the law of the land so that a woman's decision about her reproductive health is up to her and her medical provider,"
continues Brown. She has cosponsored legislation in Congress to overturn the Hyde amendment and has cosponsored legislation that would require pharmacies to provide customers with contraceptives.
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2022 OH-11 House incumbent
Oct 12, 2022
Max Miller:
Pro-life, let states rather than Congress pass legislation
Miller describes himself as "pro-life" but said he believes state legislatures, not Congress, should make abortion decisions.
For that reason, he would not support federal legislation that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham put forward that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Source: The Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2022 OH-7 House incumbent
Sep 28, 2022
JD Vance:
Preserve access to Mifepristone medication abortion
U.S. Sen. JD Vance said he supports last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision that preserves access to medication abortion -- a reversal on Vance's platform when he ran for the Senate as an uncompromising abortion opponent.Vance in an interview on
NBC's Meet the Press [this week] is softening his former anti -abortion stance in the wake of that proposed GOP platform that doesn't call for a national abortion ban. On Meet the Press, he said he supported the Supreme Court decision to allow
Mifepristone access. This is one of the abortion drugs and he says it should be legally accessible.
He says, "Donald Trump supports it and so do I."
But Donald Trump didn't use to support it, and back in 2022, when Vance was running for Senate, he was an abortion hardliner. Vance said he was 100% pro -life. He wanted to end abortion once and for all.
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Vice-Presidential hopefuls
Jul 11, 2024
JD Vance:
People don't want blanket abortion bans; exceptions ok
[In the 2022 Republican Senate primary, Vance said], he wanted to end abortion once and for all. And he defended the lack of exceptions for rape and incest. Then when he won the GOP nomination later that year, he was endorsed by Ohio Right to
Life and ended debate with his Democratic challenger, Tim Ryan. He said he supported reasonable exceptions without being specific about those exceptions. So a slight softening there.In November of 2023, after Ohio approved the abortion rights
amendment by 57%, he says we must accept that people don't want blanket abortion bans, and he says that the Republican party has lost the voters' trust.
If he's doing this because he did learn from the vote that he's not in line with Ohio, then I
would give credit to him. Is he doing the right thing by absorbing the sentiment of Ohio, who he represents and saying, "okay, I better represent my state because that's what they want." Or is he a rank opportunist that's just sucking up to Trump?
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Vice-Presidential hopefuls
Jul 11, 2024
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