Michigan AG Candidate Compares Contraception to Fentanyl: ‘You Have to Stop It at the Border’
The morning-after pill is birth control, not even abortion, but Matthew DePerno says it must be treated like a deadly opioid.
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While the GOP and anti-abortion groups keep insisting that no one is coming after birth control, actual Republicans keep confirming that they are actually trying to do that.
The latest GOP man to say the quiet part out loud is Matthew DePerno, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for Michigan’s Attorney General, aka the top lawyer in the state. DePerno, who has said he supports banning abortion with zero exceptions, also suggested that Michigan should ban the morning-after pill and prevent it from entering the state as if it were fentanyl, an extremely deadly opioid. (By the way, DePerno is under criminal investigation for allegedly tampering with voting machines. Swell guy!)
According to audio from an August conversation at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, obtained by Heartland Signal, an unidentified man asks DePerno if the state can ban Plan B. DePerno responds that “it’s an issue in terms of, how do you enforce it? You gotta figure out how to ban the pill from the state.”
The man asks if DePerno can use the court system to possibly get Plan B out of pharmacies, and DePerno said, “How do you stop it from coming in? That’s the question.” He continued: “You have to stop it at the border. It would be no different than fentanyl…The state has to ban it, and it should be banned. But it’s just an issue of how do you enforce it; how do you make sure that it stops?”