So from endorsing national measures to ban 100 percent of abortions he now just supports national measures to ban one percent (or less) of abortions. And as of today, the word “personhood” has vanished from his campaign website altogether. More recently in interviews he has said he favors “a federal personhood law that would ban abortions nationwide after the beginning of the third trimester,” with an exception for cases when the life of the mother was at risk. His website also went on to endorse “other pro-life legislation” short of a total ban just showed his willingness to “protect babies” by any means available.īut that was when he was competing for the nomination of a party that is the wholly owned subsidiary of the anti-abortion movement. That he also said “the right to life is guaranteed in our founding documents” confirms that he shared the “personhood movement” commitment to the belief that the Declaration of Independence’s citation of the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” meant zygotes are total human beings just like you and me. That’s what “personhood” has meant ever since the Republican National Platform embraced it in 1980 it’s not a term you can just apply to any position you want. Before the flip-flop, Masters supported a “a federal personhood law (ideally a Constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may not be killed.” This position, proof of his “100% pro-life” stance, was a universally understood indicator that he was willing to ban 100 percent of abortions from the moment of conception in all 50 states, regardless of what lawmakers or voters in any of those states wanted to do. Masters began his pivot in recent interviews. Just after releasing the ad, Masters’s campaign overhauled his website and softened his rhetoric, re-writing or erasing five of his six positions. That would just put us on par with other civilized nations.” (Late-term abortions are extremely rare, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker.) “Look, I support a ban on very late-term and partial-birth abortion,” he said. Mark Kelly, as the extremist on the issue while describing his own views as “commonsense.” In an ad posted to Twitter on Thursday, Masters sought to portray his opponent, Democratic Sen. Most Republicans are trying to change the subject from abortion to inflation or crime or “wokeness” instead of directly challenging the pro-choice majority that exists even in many red states.īut if you are Arizona’s GOP Senate nominee, Blake Masters, the candidate backed by Donald Trump and bankrolled by Peter Thiel, you have a different strategy for dealing with the anger of swing voters at your wild-ass posture on abortion: You just blatantly change it.
Supreme Court in abolishing the federal constitutional right to abortion has wrong-footed a lot of Republican politicians whose own radical anti-abortion positions suddenly have practical consequences for those whose votes they seek. It’s no secret that the radical action of the U.S. If Masters gets away with this, the joke’s on us.
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