After Stacking the Courts With Anti-Choice Judges, Gardner Refuses to Oppose Alabama’s Rigid Anti-Choice Law
Cory Gardner just confirmed his fifth anti-choice
federal judge in the span of a month, which is what you expect from a
rubber-stamp that has approved nearly 99 percent of President Trump’s federal
judicial nominees. By stacking the courts with anti-choice judges who are
outside the mainstream, Gardner has laid the
foundation for this new round of
uncompromising attacks on women’s health and rights.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Colorado Times Reporter: Gardner:
It’s “Up to the States,” like Alabama, to Decide if Abortion Should Be Banned
Jason Salzman
May 20, 2019
Key Points:
- After initially dodging a question from a reporter about Alabama’s abortion ban, saying he was late to a meeting and had no time to talk, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner has now stated his general support for the controversial measure.
- That’s consistent with his previous stance against Roe v. Wade, which, if overturned, would allow states to ban abortion.
- …Gardner’s position of leaving it “up to the states” to decide about abortion is consistent with anti-abortion Republicans who want Roe v. Wade struck down.
- But in a 2010 Colorado Family Institute candidate questionnaire, he’s on record opposing the landmark abortion decision.
- In the survey, Gardner indicated that he opposed the “U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.”
- In his run for U.S. Senate in 2014, he reversed his opposition to a personhood abortion ban in Colorado, but he continued to support a federal personhood bill, which he cosponsored, that aimed to outlaw abortion nationally.
Read the full article here.
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