Originally Posted By: Carcassman
His stance, and his votes in Congress, were anti. He has said he would support the existing law but so did Kavenaugh.


This is mostly false. Your feelings on his stance are subjective and a matter of opinion but on the other hand his votes in congress are on record and are an objective matter of fact, so I'll address this. By anti, I take it to mean anti-abortion, that is that abortion should be illegal. I combed through his entire voting record and there are no votes to ban abortion. However there are some that may be slightly anti, if you mean by anti that he has made some votes that would still allow abortion but slightly restrict it in some way if they passed, which they didn't.

Reichert voted multiple times in Congress, including in 2013, 2015, and 2017 to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks with exceptions for a mother’s health risk and in cases of rape and incest. However these would not ban abortions and just generally bring federal law in line with current Washington State law. I wouldn't exactly characterize this as anti-abortion since you can get one for any reason in the first 20 weeks then after that for health reasons, rape or incest. In fact I'd say this goes right along with him "supporting existing law" as he said he would.

The only other votes that he made that could be construed as anti abortion are his votes to defund Planned Parenthood in 2011 and then again in 2015. However, this would not ban abortion, just stop taxpayer funding for it, if you want to get an abortion you can pay for it yourself. Also this wouldn't even stop Planned Parenthood from existing and doing abortions. It's a 501(c)(3) charity funded not only by the federal government but also foundations like the Gates Foundation, the Buffet Foundation, the Ford Foundation and many more foundations, corporate donors and individuals. So if the federal governement quit paying, Planned Parenthood would still exist.

These are the only votes he did on abortion, so what is this anti abortion vote nonsense? Just another red herring from team blue? Let me guess, you didn't go through his voting record. You just read a hit piece on Reichert calling him anti-abortion in some blue anon conspiracy rag like the Seattle Times and ran with it?