Revealed: Matthew Whitaker favors hardline anti-abortion policies
Source: The Guardian
Revealed: Matthew Whitaker favors hardline anti-abortion policies
Remarks from Trump’s acting attorney general position the conservative Christian as an even more forceful opponent of abortion that his predecessor
Jon Swaine
Mon 26 Nov 2018 11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 26 Nov 2018 11.01 GMT
As Republicans prepared to battle Barack Obama’s re-election in 2011, Matthew Whitaker bounded on to a stage in Washington to rally the party’s troops on the “culture wars” between conservatives and liberals on social policy.
“They’re not over,” Whitaker assured his audience, at an event convened by Steve King, the rightwing Iowa congressman. “We’re still fighting.”
Whitaker and his allies lost ensuing battles on issues such as same-sex marriage. But civil rights activists fear that having now been installed as Donald Trump’s acting attorney general, Whitaker is readying a counterattack.
A review by the Guardian of previously unreported remarks revealed Whitaker has advocated for hardline anti-abortion policies that would drastically reshape laws affecting American women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
Whitaker, a conservative Christian, endorsed “personhood” bills that would effectively outlaw abortion, and said as a Senate candidate that he would spend every day in Washington pushing anti-abortion policy.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/26/revealed-matthew-whitaker-anti-abortion-policies
