Planned Parenthood Votes Rejects Pennsylvania GOP Senate Nominee David McCormick

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Breana Ross, Pennsylvania state director for Planned Parenthood Votes, released the following statement in response to anti-abortion rights candidate David McCormick’s victory in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania:

“Despite his efforts to hide his abortion record, David McCormick is out of step with the majority of Pennsylvanians — who believe abortion should be between patients and their doctors, not politicians. McCormick is determined to move this country in the opposite direction. Pennsylvanians deserve a senator who will protect their health, not someone who will further assault their reproductive rights and endorse an abortion ban if elected. Planned Parenthood Votes will make sure voters know the truth about the threat McCormick poses and reject him this November. We must keep David McCormick far away from the U.S. Senate and even farther away from people's personal private medical decisions.” 

More on McCormick’s dangerous abortion record:

• McCormick has tried to backtrack on his abortion stance to deceive voters. In 2022, his campaign issue page said that he is “staunchly pro-life and believes that life begins at conception” and that he “will continue to advocate for the rights of the unborn” if elected. Now he claims that “we need to seek policies that unify the country” — a key phrase used by candidates trying to soften their unpopular views for voters but still planning to attack our reproductive freedom when given the chance.
• In an interview in 2022, McCormick said he will support moving the country “in a direction where there isn’t abortion” at all — indicating support for abortion bans that deny people access to critical health care, even when their lives are in danger.
• In a 2022 debate, McCormick said he only supports exceptions for the life of the mother. Now, McCormick says he supports exceptions for rape and incest, too. The evidence is clear: Even with so-called exceptions, abortion bans render patients and their health care providers helpless when conditions like preeclampsia, ectopic pregnancy, as well as  other emergency pregnancy complications develop and abortion care is needed. McCormick still supports policies that put the lives of pregnant people at risk.
• McCormick said that overturning Roe would be a “huge victory.” That “victory” has led to  abortion bans in place in 21 states and counting; now, more than 1 in 3 women — plus more transgender and gender nonconforming people — are blocked from care in their home state.

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