Washington, DC — First district Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks says Democrats making abortion a key issue in their campaigns have nothing else to run on.
Christina Bohannan, the Democrat running against Miller-Meeks, has just released a campaign ad accusing Miller-Meeks of pushing to ban all abortions nationwide with no exceptions for rape or incest. On the campaign trail, Bohannan cites Miller-Meeks’ previous support of a constitutional amendment that says life begins at fertilization, which would ban all abortions. Miller-Meeks did not sign on as a co-sponsor of the proposal during the current two-year session of Congress.
Last year, Miller-Meeks voted to set five-year prison sentences for healthcare providers who do not try to save the life of a baby that’s born alive during an attempted abortion. The bill was opposed by Democrats.
A 2003 federal law bans so-called “partial-birth” abortions and it is considered murder to kill a baby that is born alive.
