ARIZONA – In the lead up to the Arizona U.S. Senate debate next week, here are the facts about Kari Lake’s long, dangerous record of endangering Arizona women and threatening their right to make their own decisions about health care:

Kari supports banning abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest and supports throwing doctors in prison for providing health care services: 

- Lake supports Arizona’s “draconian” territorial ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, saying sheriffs should enforce the ban, and lamenting that it wasn’t enforced.

- BeforeRoe v. Wadewas overturned. Lakesaid, “I joined Congressman Gosar in praying for God’s guidance to the Supreme Court and an end to thisnational disgracecreated underRoe v Wade.”

- Lake said “abortion is the ultimate sin” that it is an “execution.”

- Lake said “I would very much support banning those types of abortion pills,”in reference to medical abortions, which have been proven safe.

- When asked about the Texas abortion ban, an extreme law that allows for abortion “bounty hunters,” Lake said, “I will sign that in a heartbeat.”  

- Lake said, “I am pro-life 100%.”

- Lake said, “I am pro-life 100%.” 

- Lake said, “I’m 100% pro-life and I’d like to see, I’d like to see no abortions…”

- Lake said, “I am pro-life and I am 100% pro-life.” 

Kari Lake opposes protecting IVF, saying she “doesn’t believe Congress should get involved”:

- In March 2024, when Lake was asked whether Congress should be involved in protecting IVF, she said “the less the federal government is getting involved in our lives, the better.“

Kari Lake has stated multiple times that she doesn’t believe women are equal to men:

- As recently as July 2024, Kari Lake doubled down on her belief that men and women are not equal, saying “men and women aren’t equal. We aren’t equal.” 

- In an August 2022  interview on “Louder With Crowder” deleted due to violations of YouTube’s misinformation standards, Lake tells Steven Crowder “God did not create us to be equal to men.”

- In a November 2021 interview with the “American Monetary Association,” Lake reiterated that women are “being told […] to strive, to be equal to men. And you know what? We aren’t equal to men.” 

- In a June 2021 speech to young women Lake said, “We know that God did not create us to be equal to men.”

- In a June 2021 interview on “Backyard Politics,” Lake repeated that “We are not equal to men.”