Jim Schultz would not fight for Minnesotans rights to a legal abortion in the state | MinnPost

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : He's a hedge fund lawyer who has never actually tried a case, he opposes gun safety reforms like universal background checks to keep Minnesotans safe, and he promised to defund the corporate law enforcement functions of the Attorney General's office that protect everyday Minnesotans from predatory big businesses.
44% : Schultz's latest efforts at obfuscating his anti-abortion views came almost immediately after a memo from the Minnesota GOP leaked, which told candidates to soften their positions on abortion.
44% : Schultz served on the board of directors of the Human Life Alliance, an anti-abortion organization that describes its mission as working to "make abortion not just illegal, but unthinkable."
44% : In a survey sent out by Minnesota Concerned Citizens for Life, Minnesota's largest anti-abortion organization that has openly talked about working to "end abortion," Schultz said that he supported the group's "incremental approach" to "creating a pro-life Minnesota."
43% : That fact alone should answer any question about Schultz's views on abortion.
43% : It is a strategy Republicans have been successfully employing to ban abortion across America.
35% : Are we expected to believe that Schultz will sit down on the issue of abortion after helping to lead a group with such extreme views?
35% : Republicans across the country have lied about their plans to restrict abortion right up until they gain power, then they move swiftly to restrict it.
34% : While Schultz's team admits he is privately anti-abortion, they try to claim he wouldn't actually change abortion policy in Minnesota.
33% : In my opinion, the specifics of Schultz's threatened lawsuit are less important than why he made those threats: I believe Jim Schultz is trying to hide just how anti-abortion he is from Minnesota voters.
31% : Not long ago, Republican Attorney General Candidate Jim Schultz threatened to sue me for a Tweet pointing out just how anti-abortion he is.
23% : The group has also spread dangerous medical disinformation about abortion, claiming that late-term abortions are "never" needed to save a woman's life and even going so far as to state that abortion "only adds to and accentuates the traumatic feelings associated with sexual assault."
14% : Jim Schultz helped lead a group dedicated to banning abortion, told another anti-abortion organization he supported their approach to banning abortion, and promised to defend pharmacists who deny patients any prescription related to abortion.
14% : Jim Schultz helped lead a group dedicated to banning abortion, told another anti-abortion organization he supported their approach to banning abortion, and promised to defend pharmacists who deny patients any prescription related to abortion.

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