RFK Jr. Supports a National Abortion Ban

RFK Jr.’s stances on reproductive health would lead to a federal abortion ban, banning IVF, and cutting off access to birth control. He’s in lockstep with Donald Trump’s Project 2025 takeover plan, which would monitor pregnancies, prosecute doctors for providing healthcare, and let judges, not doctors, make decisions about reproductive care.

• RFK Jr. supported the same 15-week federal abortion ban championed by former Vice President Mike Pence before attempting to walk back his comments.
• RFK Jr. has long opposed reproductive freedom, calling himself pro-life and opposing abortion “on a moral basis.”
• RFK Jr. has spread misinformation and misleading data about reproductive care.
• His running mate is best known for her war on IVF — an essential medical procedure for women who want to get pregnant, but struggle to do so.
• RFK Jr. hired a pro-Trump, anti-abortion activist who referred to abortion as “genocide” of the Black community.
• RFK Jr. has repeatedly refused to offer policy solutions on reproductive rights and referred to abortion as a “culture war" issue” — saying that “both sides have legitimate concerns.”

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• As early as 1978, RFK Jr. said he was “against abortion myself on a moral basis.”
• He continued to hold that belief, and in 2005, RFK Jr. said he was “pro-life.”
• At a campaign event in Iowa, RFK Jr. said he supported the same federal 15-week abortion ban championed by former Vice President Mike Pence before his campaign attempted to walk it back.
• RFK Jr. supported state-level abortion bans by saying, “I think the states have a right to protect a child once the child becomes viable.”
• RFK Jr. has said that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
• RFK Jr. hired as a campaign consultant a Trump-supporting anti-abortion activist and repeatedly quoted her misleading abortion data.
• His running mate Nicole Shanahan is best known for her war on IVF.
• RFK Jr. repeatedly minimizes abortion and reproductive health policy as a “culture war” and “trigger” issue and has refused to offer policy solutions about what he would do as president.