ICYMI: GOP #GASEN Candidates Support Texas’s Dangerous Six-Week Abortion Ban

Following the Supreme Court decision to uphold Texas’s dangerous six-week abortion ban that makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, every Georgia GOP Senate candidate came out in support of the efforts to strip away the right of individuals and families to make their own health care decisions. The Texas law, supported by the entire Republican Senate field, empowers citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who “aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion” — and to collect a “bounty of at least $10,000” if their claim prevails.

• Gary Black lauded the anti-choice measure, which includes no exemptions for rape or incest. 

• Latham Saddler praised the decision and promised that the “kinds of judges I’ll vote to approve” in the Senate are anti-choice — before contending that Georgia’s six-week anti-abortion measure “should now go forward, too.”

• Kelvin King “applauded the ruling” that opens the door to reversing Roe v. Wade and limiting Georgians’ right to make their own health care decisions.

• And via a spokeswoman, Herschel Walker — the Trump-tapped candidate who “declined to comment on the high-profile Supreme Court decision” for nearly a week — finally came out with the go-to GOP politician statement touting how he will “always stand for the unborn.”

“From setting bounties on health care providers to barring medical intervention even in cases of rape and incest, every GOP Senate candidate is in support of egregious government overreach into Georgians’ private health care decisions,” said Dan Gottlieb, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Georgia. “The stakes of this upcoming election for Georgia families couldn’t be clearer.”

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