NARAL Pro-Choice America Issues Statement on Pompeo’s Confirmation As Secretary of State
"Today is a dark day for women and girls across the world with
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For more on Pompeo's extreme anti-choice ideology, read NARAL's Medium post here.
The Trump administration has routinely used the
* Pompeo repeatedly cosponsored legislation that would make abortion illegal nationwide in almost all cases and ban some of the most common forms of contraception, stem-cell research, and in vitro fertilization.
* Pompeo repeatedly voted for a ban on abortion after 20 weeks without an adequate exception to protect a woman's health.
* Pompeo repeatedly voted to defund
* Pompeo repeatedly voted in favor of the global gag rule, which bans overseas health clinics from receiving
* Pompeo repeatedly voted for the Hyde amendment, which blocks coverage of abortion care for low-income women, military women, federal employees, and many more, in a bill establishing a new medical-research fund.
* Pompeo repeatedly voted to allow hospitals to refuse to provide emergency abortion care, even when a woman's life is in danger.
* Pompeo repeatedly voted to allow employers to discriminate against employees based on their reproductive-health decisions.
* Pompeo's congressional campaign website stated, "Mike believes life begins at conception and ends at natural death. He has great respect for human life on all instances with no exceptions."
* In an interview, Pompeo said he did not support allowing rape survivors to access abortion care: "I believe that that child - however conceived - is a life and I want very much for that life to continue to exist."
* Pompeo gave a long speech on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade during which he repeatedly denigrated the decision itself and reproductive rights in general. He called Roe "one of the worst decisions of our
Pompeo received a 100% score from the National Right to Life Committee every year he served in
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