When a constituent reached out via email to GOP state Sen. Danny Britt about the state’s abortion ban, he replied, “I suggest you move to China immediately and see how that works out for you.”
State Sen. Michael Lee, who has no medical background or knowledge, has used his vote seven times to tell women that what they do with their bodies is his decision and not theirs. Candidate Dr. David Hill will stand up for a woman’s right to choose.
In the highly watched governor’s race, reproductive rights advocate Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is up against Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has openly declared that “there is no compromise on abortion.”
At a recent meet-and-greet in Rockingham County, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told an attendee that he believes birth control is “being forced on very young ladies” and implied that providing girls with birth control will make them want to have sex.
Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, died from an infection that was preventable and also treatable with a routine procedure – one that she was unable to get because of new, highly restrictive laws.
Republican state Sen. Lisa Stone Barnes voted for the state’s 12-week abortion ban (and the veto override) and then lied to her constituents, telling them the ban would “expand the rights of women.”
Ken Fontenot is not a household name in North Carolina. Still, for the people who live in House District 24 – which covers all of Wilson County, plus a small section of Nash County – it’s a name they should familiarize themselves with.
“I would love to get [abortion restrictions] down to six weeks. And I’d like to get down to zero. I would like to push it back as far as we could and eliminate as many abortions as we can,” Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told supporters earlier this month.
Republican perennial candidate (and perennial election loser) Joshua Niday is running for a seat in the legislature for the fourth time this fall and his right-wing extremist beliefs have been flying under the radar in his district.
Polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight show that Josh Stein’s “skirt” ad had “a near-immediate impact on Robinson’s campaign.” Stein and Robinson were neck-and-neck until July – after Stein’s ad was released. Some recent polls show Stein up as much as 14 points.