Dems’ tellingly desperate abortion smear of Marc Molinaro

Democrats have labeled Marc Molinaro as supporting a ban on abortion.
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Democrats are so determined to make each race this yr about abortion and nothing else that they’re telling outright lies. Take the advertisements from the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee labelling Marc Molinaro an “extremist” on the difficulty to advertise Josh Riley within the Hudson Valley race for the Home.

Molinaro has lengthy mentioned he's personally anti-abortion, however has by no means backed banning it, apart from considerations about very-late-term abortions that almost all New Yorkers share. And he explicitly backed passing New York legal guidelines to make sure abortion wouldn't be criminalized if the Supreme Court docket tossed Roe v. Wade

But the DCCC advertisements declare he opposed the state’s Reproductive Well being Act when he wasn’t even within the Legislature when that legislation handed in 2019. They insist he backs a nationwide abortion ban when he’s explicitly rejected the thought, together with in a debate earlier this yr.

DCCC advertisements declare Molinaro opposed New York’s Reproductive Well being Act

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The advert even photoshops him into a picture at an occasion he didn’t attend with Rep. Elise Stefanik, who’s markedly extra pro-life.

In the meantime, flyers flatly lie, “Marc Molinaro opposes a lady’s proper to a secure, authorized abortion. In Congress, he would attempt to finish our entry to abortion, even in circumstances of rape and incest and for the well being of the mom.”

On prime of all this, this can be a Home race, and the Supreme Court docket ruling nixing Roe despatched the difficulty again to the states, possible precluding any federal abortion ban. (Nor does any critical analyst see an opportunity of New York limiting abortion rights any decade quickly.)

Josh Riley ought to demand that the DCCC (headed, by the best way, by sleazy NY Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney) pull the deceptive advertisements and name on native media to reject them.

And voters in each race throughout the nation ought to ignore the determined Democratic drive to distract from the actual points this fall, beginning with crime, inflation and the sagging US financial system.