Winsome Earle-Sears Campaigns Alongside Extreme Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders 

Winsome Earle-Sears Campaigns Alongside Extreme Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders 

Sears and Huckabee Sanders share an extreme record attacking reproductive rights and supporting abortion bans

VIRGINIA – Winsome Earle-Sears today is campaigning alongside Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who like Sears has an extreme record opposing abortion and reproductive rights. Huckabee Sanders has stated that she does not support adding exceptions for victims of rape and incest to the Arkansas’s abortion ban and – despite Arkansas having one of the strictest abortion bans in the country – Huckabee Sanders also pledged to sign even further restrictions into law.

“Winsome Earle-Sears’ event with Sarah Huckabee Sanders signals her extreme agenda to ban abortion in Virginia just like Huckabee Sanders has in Arkansas. While Virginians deserve a governor who puts Virginia first, Sears is choosing to stand with Huckabee Sanders who has repeatedly attacked reproductive freedom and defended Arkansas’ near-total abortion ban,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.

Read about Sears’ Dangerous Record on Reproductive Rights: 

• In multiple interviews, Sears has made clear her support for restrictions on abortion.
  • In a 2022 interview she said, “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after, you already made a choice.”
  • During her campaign for lieutenant governor she called abortion “genocide.”

• Sears supports an extreme six week abortion ban similar to the law that took effect in Texas that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant.

• Sears has said that she would support an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
  • January 2021: The Winchester Star reported that Sears said she wanted to make abortion illegal in all cases, unless the life of the mother was at risk.

• Sears vowed to “do everything in [her] power” to end abortion in Virginia.
  • Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
    • Sears attempted to scrub this abortion section from her website around September 2021.

• Sears left a handwritten note that she is “morally opposed to this bill […]” on the constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, including contraception, abortion, and IVF.

• Sears admitted she would not sign the Right to Contraception Act into law saying “[…] This legislation is more about pushing a political agenda […].”

• Sears “couldn’t resist” voting against this legislation to guarantee Virginia women’s access to contraception.

• Sears has declared she is “standing shoulder to shoulder” with the far-right fight against IVF.

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