Unearthed audio finds latest Republican with hateful abortion opinions
Republican Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona said women who get abortions in the United States "hate the country because they only care about themselves.”
HuffPost reported that Schweikert made the comments in a 2022 interview with a conservative radio host Seth Leibsohn.
In the interview, Schweikert said of women who get abortions: “They hate their neighbors because they only care about themselves. They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility.”
Of course, getting an abortion has nothing to do with someone's level of responsibility, patriotism, or their love for their children. Abortions happen for many reasons, including women who end wanted pregnancies because their life is at risk or the fetus has been diagnosed with abnormalities that are incompatible with life.
Indeed, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and paved the way for GOP-controlled states to pass laws banning the procedure, a number of harrowing stories emerged of women who were denied abortion care and faced serious or even deadly consequences.
Vice President Kamala Harris has featured some of these stories in campaign ads, including one released on Wednesday featuring the story of a woman in Texas who almost died after she was unable to receive an abortion for her fetus that would not survive, causing her to go septic.