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stated on November 20, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Abortion clinics warn they’ll go bankrupt if Democrat ‘sex strike’ continues.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 27, 2024
Social Media
stated on November 4, 2024 in una publicación en redes sociales:

Una mujer posó junto a su hija con un cartel que dice, “Quiero que mi hija tenga el derecho a abortar que yo no tuve”.

By Sofia Ahmed • November 26, 2024
Social Media
stated on November 21, 2024 in social media posts:

A woman holds a sign that says, “I want my daughter to have the right to abortion that I didn’t have.”

By Sofia Ahmed • November 25, 2024
Threads posts
stated on November 6, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Abortion is never medically necessary in the last trimester. Literally never. They just do a C-section.”

By Samantha Putterman • November 11, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on October 29, 2024 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:

Former President Donald Trump would “force states to monitor women's pregnancies.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 26, 2024 in an Instagram post:

At Vice President Kamala Harris’ Houston campaign rally, when an attendee had a medical emergency, none of the “abortion doctors” onstage helped.

By Madison Czopek • October 29, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 23, 2024 in a video:

Kamala Harris imprisoned a woman for three years for praying.

By Samantha Putterman • October 25, 2024
Terence Everitt
stated on October 11, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:

Republican state Senate candidate Ashlee Adams “campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda.”

By Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
Tony Perkins
stated on September 11, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“In 12 states, children born alive after a failed abortion have no legal protection, and in three more states children born alive after an abortion had legal rights that governors — like Tim Walz — repealed.”

By Sara Swann • September 18, 2024
Tim Walz
stated on September 14, 2024 in a speech:

“In Project 2025, you’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant.”

By Samantha Putterman • September 17, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 11, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"Debate moderators made the false claim to Donald Trump that there is nowhere in the United States where abortion is legal up until birth."

By Jeff Cercone • September 13, 2024
Sam Brown
stated on August 28, 2024 in a campaign appearance:

Proposed Nevada constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights would put “essentially no limit on access to abortion.”

By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 in un anuncio de radio de campaña:

El senador Rick Scott no apoya las excepciones al aborto.

By Marta Campabadal Graus • August 16, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 in an ad:

Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.

By Marta Campabadal Graus • August 14, 2024
Tim Sheehy
stated on June 8, 2024 in in a U.S. Senate candidate debate:

“Elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth. Healthy, 9-month-year-old baby killed at the moment of birth. That’s what Jon Tester and the Democrats have voted for.”

By Matt Volz • July 10, 2024
Threads posts
stated on July 7, 2024 in a Threads post:

Project 2025 mandates women carry “period passports” to “track their menstrual cycles” and “monitor pregnancies.”

By Jeff Cercone • July 8, 2024
Threads posts
stated on July 27, 2024 in a Threads post:

C-sections are coded as abortions in hospitals.

By Samantha Putterman • July 5, 2024
Ron Johnson
stated on April 15, 2024 in Podcast:

"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”

By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024
Lila Rose
stated on May 14, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Anti-abortion activist sentenced to 57 months in prison for “handing roses and resources to women at an abortion facility.”

By Jeff Cercone • May 17, 2024
X posts
stated on May 10, 2024 in an X post:

Sen. Katie Britt introduced a bill “to create a national registry of pregnant women.”

By Sara Swann • May 16, 2024
Paul Renner
stated on April 4, 2024 in an interview:

For health risk exceptions in Florida’s abortion amendment, “You're not even talking to a doctor to make that determination.”

By Maria Briceño • May 10, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 23, 2024 in a news conference:

Florida’s Amendment 4 "will mandate abortion until the moment of birth.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 30, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on February 11, 2024 in an Instagram post:

If a woman in Texas takes “abortion pills voluntarily,” she would be “charged with murder.”

By Jeff Cercone • February 14, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on January 22, 2024 in Speech:

"After Roe was dismantled, extremists evoked a law from 1849 to stop abortion” in Wisconsin.

By Hope Karnopp • January 23, 2024
Mark Robinson
stated on November 9, 2023 in a social media post:

North Carolina Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein “supports taxpayer-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions up until birth.”

By Paul Specht • December 11, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on November 12, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Quotes House Speaker Mike Johnson as saying, “Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker.”

By Grace Abels • November 13, 2023
Protect Women Ohio
stated on October 30, 2023 in a video:

Ohio’s Issue 1 “allows for abortion after viability for…financial reasons.”

By Grace Abels • November 3, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 18, 2023 in an interview:

“In some liberal states, you actually have post-birth abortions.”

By Samantha Putterman • July 21, 2023

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