Garrett Soldano.Photo: Garrett Soldano/Facebook
Video of Soldano’s appearance has since gone viral after being shared on social media.
In the interview, Soldano suggested that abortion should be illegal at the moment “DNA is created,” saying, “That’s even before the heartbeat — when DNA is created, it has a place at the table for life … DNA is created, then we defend it.”
He continued: “I get it: There’s a lot of situations out there, when you talk about rape and everything else and you say, ‘Hey, maybe they deserve an abortion.’ "
According to his campaign website, Soldano is a “chiropractor, small business owner, author, public speaker, family man, proud Catholic and former [Western Michigan University] football player.”
“Garrett Soldano’s defense of forcing rape survivors to carry their attacker’s child is a disgusting, dangerous attack on women’s control over our own bodies and our own lives,” she said, writing in another tweet: “With Roe v. Wade under threat at the Supreme Court, the stakes have never been higher. When Garrett Soldano tells you the laws his party wants, the stakes have never been more clear.”
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While the U.S. recently marked the 49th anniversary of the landmark court ruling inRoe v. Wade, a woman’s right to access abortion is under mounting legal pressure from anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers.
A number of states have implemented highly restrictive laws in an effort to have the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturnRoe.
President Joe Biden shared a statement onTwitterearlier this month to mark the Supreme Court decision of 1973 that granted women the nationwide right to access abortion.
In 2021, a record106 restrictions on abortionsbecame law in the U.S.
source: people.com
