Kentucky GOP Candidate Signed Pledge Saying the Birth Control Pill Causes Abortions
Attorney General and gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron (R) also answered "yes" to a question that asked if he'd support criminalizing abortion. Yikes?
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Kentucky Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron (R) signed an endorsement questionnaire earlier this year which said that multiple types of birth control, including the pill, cause abortions. Independent journalist Jessica Valenti flagged that this information was at the bottom of an NBC News story about Cameron’s stances on health insurance. Cameron, who is staunchly anti-abortion, is running against pro-choice Gov. Andy Beshear (D) in the off-year election this November.
Northern Kentucky Right to Life sent out an endorsement questionnaire ahead of the Republican primary in May, which isn’t surprising on its own. The group asked candidates if they would support efforts to codify fetal personhood from fertilization (read: a total abortion ban), make it a criminal offense to perform abortions, prohibit the use of federal, state, and local funds for abortions, and to repeal the Affordable Care Act requirement that birth control—which it called “artificial contraception”—be covered by insurance. Cameron answered yes to all 11 questions. (Again, not completely surprising on its own.)