Anti-Abortion Colorado Republican Candidate Tries to Pass Himself Off as Pro-Choice
Will media actually challenge the politicians on their statements?
Right to that choice…have the choice…right to choose…the way I choose: Beauprez almost sounds like a Planned Parenthood activist. But his legislative record and past statements couldn’t be more at odds with his seemingly pro-choice comments.
In 2005, then-Rep. Beauprez cosponsored the Right to Life Act, a measure that guaranteed “equal protection for the right to life of each born and pre-born human person.” The bill defined life beginning with “the moment of fertilization,” and could severely restrict abortions. In Colorado Right-to-Life’s 2006 voter guide, he said he supported a constitutional amendment to “restore full protection to pre-born human beings.” That same year, he asserted—incorrectly—that the abortion rate for black women was an “appalling” 70 percent. (The actual rate at the time, according to the Guttmacher Institute, was 49 per 1,000—or 4.9 percent.) And in 2013, in a column on TownHall.com, he urged all Americans to reconcile the “tragedies” of abortions just as they reconciled the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut.
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