David McCormick Supports A Dangerous Abortion Ban With No Exceptions for Rape or Incest

PENNSYLVANIA — Following David McCormick becoming the GOP Senate nominee, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party is continuing to highlight why Pennsylvanians can’t trust the Connecticut mega-millionaire and hedge fund CEO to be for them. 

David McCormick’s dangerous anti-choice agenda — that includes support for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest — makes clear that Pennsylvanians can’t trust him to protect women’s freedom to make their own medical choices.

Read More About David McCormick’s Dangerous Anti-Choice Agenda:

• When asked directly in a debate last yearwhether he believed there should be exceptions for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother, McCormick responded only “in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.”
  • Axios: “David McCormick…said during a debate in Harrisburg last month he’s fully against all scenarios involving abortion, apart from ‘in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.’”
  • HuffPost: “McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he does not support exceptions in abortion laws for rape or incest.”
  • HuffPost: “McCormick said in a May 2022 debate with Oz that he supports banning abortion with an exception only when the pregnant person’s life is in danger, and not in cases of rape or incest.”
  • WESA: There was no “pushback from the McCormick campaign.”

• McCormick said “we have to change the law on life” during a 2022 campaign event.

• Before the Dobbs decision leaked, McCormick said he would be a “stalwart opponent of abortion.”

• McCormick repeatedly praised the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft overturning Roe as a “huge victory” and “huge step forward.”

• McCormick’s 2022 campaign website said he was “staunchly pro-life.”

• McCormick refuses to support legislation to protect IVF.

• McCormick is silent on the Supreme Court case that would ban the use of mifepristone, an abortion pill used by more than half of American women seeking an abortion.