GOP Rep. Scott Perry Flip-Flops On Whether He Backs A National Abortion Ban
Source: Huff Post
05:30 AM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has been making a point lately of telling voters that he doesnt support a nationwide abortion ban. In a Thursday interview with a local news station, FOX43, Perry said he agrees with former President Donald Trump that abortion rights should be decided by individual states. Thats effectively what conservatives on the Supreme Court decided in June 2022 when they struck down Roe v. Wade.
I think its the appropriate one, he said of Trumps position. Lets honor the courts decision, and then have the states figure that out so that we have those decisions being made locally, where they should be.
Perry, a former chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said the same thing a few weeks earlier at a Republican political conference in his state, emphasizing that he opposes a national abortion ban and supports fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization. Both topics have been hotly debated ― and will be major campaign issues in the November elections ― in the aftermath of the Supreme Courts 2022 decision, as well as the Alabama Supreme Courts decision in February to define frozen embryos as children.
But the Pennsylvania Republican is hoping nobody notices that hes signed on to legislation in Congress for the last seven years to impose a near-total nationwide abortion ban ― and hes still a cosponsor of this bill.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-congressman-scott-perry-abortion_n_662bdf47e4b0bd041d779adc
He should be in prison for insurrection.
Would love to flip his seat here in PA! There was apparently a 6-way (D) race for that district and former TV anchor Janelle Stelson won. She is on Emily's List and abortion is at the top of her agenda - https://emilyslist.org/candidate/janelle-stelson/
MOMFUDSKI
(5,765 posts)No opinion allowed.
4lbs
(6,866 posts)If he says he doesn't, tell him like "Hey man, we got receipts. What about your umm... cosponsoring a bill that would do exactly that?"
If they want to engage in "whataboutism", throw it right back in their faces.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,085 posts)Now, as my mother used to say, pull the other one.
sanatanadharma
(3,747 posts)My rights as an American should not be zip-code based.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)My brother lives in his district, which is unfortunately in a very red part of Pennsyltucky.
paleotn
(18,001 posts)Or piss of a significant portion of their base. It's a religious issue with those people and they've been so heavily propagandized over the years there's no room for their politicians to maneuver.