ICYMI: Michelle Steel Voted to Ban Mifepristone in Unrelenting Effort to Ban All Abortions Without Exceptions for Rape, Incest, or Health of the Mother

Garden Grove, CA — Southern California MAGA Congresswoman Michelle Steel voted yes on a bill that would have banned FDA approved Mifepristone nationwide. Rolling Stone covered this vote from September in an article written this week by Tessa Stuart. Steel has co-sponsored the Life At Conception Bill twice, a bill that would ban all abortion without exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother. This bill would also ban IVF treatment, something Steel claims she supports but votes against every time. Her vote against Mifepristone was another assault on women’s reproductive freedom and another attempt to insert an extreme, right wing government into the lives of women nationwide.

Excerpts from Tessa Stuart’s reporting in Rolling Stone today:

“Americans overwhelmingly support maintaining access to the abortion pill — even Republicans. According to a Fox News poll released Wednesday, more than two-thirds of all voters favor keeping mifepristone legal…”

“Despite voters’ views, Republicans have recently made a habit of trying to shoehorn radical restrictions on abortion into government funding bills.”

“several of [Representative Ciscomani’s] Republican colleagues, also from swing districts, did support it, including Reps. John Duarte, Kevin Kiley, and Michelle Steel of California…”

To read the full article, click here.

California’s 45th is a Congressional District representing portions of Orange and Los Angeles Counties in Southern California. A majority-minority district, the District has the second largest AAPI population (36.97%) of any Congressional District, and the largest Vietnamese community in the country.  President Biden won the current district lines by +6 points and it has a +6 point Democratic registration advantage. It includes all or part of the Cities of Garden Grove, Westminster, Cerritos, Buena Park, Placentia, Hawaiian Gardens, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Artesia, Los Alamitos, La Palma, Brea, Lakewood, and Fullerton, as well as the unincorporated community of Rossmoor. The DCCC has listed it as a “District In Play.”

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