A Republican candidate for the state legislature appears to support punishing women who have had an abortion with the death penalty.
North Richland Hills Republican David Lowe, candidate for house seat 91, says his campaign in the May 24 runoff election has nothing to do with killing women. “I’m not even a fan of the death penalty,” he told a Republican women’s club luncheon last week in downtown Fort Worth.
But then, Lowe dropped this line:
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"Do we all agree that abortion is murder?” he asked the crowd. “Absolutely. There should be consequences for it.”
At the same event, his opponent, State Rep. Stephanie Klick, an advocate for the right to life, stated explicitly that she opposed capital punishment for women who obtain an abortion.
“Abolishing abortion is important, but we can do that without giving women the death penalty,” Klick told the luncheon. "I don’t think it’s necessary to sentence women to death that had an abortion.”
While the Texas and National Republican Party platforms both oppose abortion and support "the sanctity of innocent human life," Right-to-Life advocates usually spell out clearly that they would never seek to sponsor legislation that would punish women who obtain abortions.
Meanwhile, the Texas Democratic Party platform states that it stands for "confidential, unrestricted access to affordable healthcare, including ...abortion."
There is no Democrat in this race.
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