“It has become abundantly clear that Lake will say most anything if she thinks it’ll land her a seat in the U.S. Senate.”

ARIZONA -– Kari Lake will say anything to gain power, as pointed out by Arizona Republic Opinion’s Laurie Roberts.

Lake recently said she wants people to hear her abortion stance from her, but “we’ve long been hearing from Lake about her deeply principled stance on abortion.”

Arizonans know that Kari Lake’s stance on abortion includes stripping Arizonans of their reproductive rights, banning abortions without exceptions for rape or incest, calling on sheriffs to enforce the 1864 ban, downplaying the 1864 abortion ban, banning medication abortions, and calling abortion “the ultimate sin.”

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Arizona Republic Opinion: Kari Lake’s abortion stance tells us everything we need to know about Kari Lake

By: Laurie Roberts

October 2nd, 2024

Key Points:

• Suddenly, Kari Lake trusts Arizona voters to decide whether abortion should be legal.

• “The lies about my stance on abortion are outrageous,” she said in a social media post on Tuesday, referring to Ruben Gallego’s claims that Lake wants to ban abortion. “I want you to hear it from me.”

• Actually, we’ve long been hearing from Lake about her deeply principled stance on abortion.

• Like that time in September 2021 when she vowed to sign the Texas heartbeat bill if elected governor – the one outlawing abortion at roughly six weeks – “in a heartbeat.”

• “The most vital role our Elected Officials have,” she explained, “is protecting our most vulnerable.”

• Or like that time in May 2022 when she called abortion “the ultimate sin.”

• Or all those times she pronounced herself “thrilled” at the prospect of that 1864 territorial law that criminalized abortion becoming law once again.

• “I have a good feeling that they’re going to do the right thing this time ,” Lake said during a February 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate forum, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending ruling on Roe v. Wade. “We have a great law on the books right now. If that happens we will be a state where we will not be taking the lives of our unborn anymore.”

• “I’m incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that’s already on the books, I believe it’s ARS 13-3603,” she said during a June 2022 interview on KFYI. “So it will prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we’re going to be setting the, paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.”

• ARS 13-3603 is the territorial law that mandates a two- to five-year prison sentence for anyone who performs an abortion on a girl or a woman who is not dying.

• “My personal belief is that all life matters. All life counts, and all life is precious, and I don’t believe in abortion,” she said during the Republican gubernatorial debate in June 2022. “I think the older law is going to take and is going to go into effect. That’s what I believe will happen.”

• Lake also said she would like to outlaw abortion pills.

• “I believe life begins at conception,” she said during that June 2022 Republican debate.

• “I don’t think abortion pills should be legal,” she added.

• In September 2022, after a Pima County judge briefly lifted the then-49-year-old injunction that had blocked enforcement of that 1864 abortion ban, Lake again reiterated her stance.

• “I’m pro-life,” she told Fox News. “I’ve never backed away from that and never will.”

• Just as it has become abundantly clear that Lake will say most anything if she thinks it’ll land her a seat in the U.S. Senate…

• Translation, she’s now OK with voters enshrining what she has called “the ultimate sin” into the state Constitution?

• She won’t support a federal ban on abortion just two years after telling us, “the most vital role our Elected Officials have is protecting our most vulnerable”?

• She believes that “all life counts” … until her own political life is on the line?

• I can respect those who hold a deeply held belief that life begins at conception, that abortion is murder.

• But when an anti-abortion crusader chucks aside her beliefs just to try to win a few votes?