Reproductive health care policies that Republicans say they back or oppose now are undercut by records and past stances.
Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler is seen in the U.S. Capitol on January 12, 2024. He's one of several GOP lawmakers moderating their stance on IVF and abortion as part of their reelection campaigns.In New York’s Hudson Valley region, first-term GOP Rep. Mike Lawler is vying for reelection by saying he will never vote for a federal abortion ban and will fight to “In Southern California, where Matt Gunderson is challenging three-term Democratic Rep.
The Republican Party’s advice for its candidates is different this year. The National Republican Congressional Committee told candidates early on that they needed to articulate their abortion positions before Democrats’ ads did it for them.
Lawler’s stances on abortion are among the most protective of the Republicans attempting to moderate their approach — he is defending one of just 13 House seats held by GOP representatives thatthis year. In one of Lawler’s campaign ads, he and his wife discuss how they used IVF to conceive, then he says: “There can be no place for extremism in women’s health care — from the left, or the right.” He opposes GOP attempts to curtail access to mifepristone.
In Arizona, where Rep. Juan Ciscomani is in a rematch against former state house lawmaker Kirsten Engel, the first-term Republican has called the state’s now-defunct strict” and says he supports IVF. He has long characterized abortion as an issue for the states and not the federal government but as a member of the House Appropriations Committee backedby mail. The provision was not included in the final bill over the objections of moderate Republicans.
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