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(24,720 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2022, 01:04 AM Jul 2022

New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate says he supports all abortion bans, exceptions or not

By Josh Israel -July 18, 2022 4:45 PM

Republican Senate candidate Kevin Smith said he would vote for a ban with exceptions: 'I don't think we should allow the good to be the enemy of the perfect.'

New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Kevin Smith said last week that he would vote for a federal abortion ban — with or without exceptions. He has previously claimed to back exceptions to such bans in cases of rape or incest and to save the life of the pregnant person.

Smith, a former town manager of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and one-time state representative, spoke on July 14 during a candidate event in Brentwood, New Hampshire, organized by the right-wing Government Integrity Project and said that he is open to backing any and all abortion bans:

Look, I am pro-life, but I've always said that we shouldn't allow the good to be the enemy of the perfect. And so if there was pro-life legislation introduced that would protect the unborn baby at earlier than, say, 24 weeks as we have in this state, I'd support it. But if it included exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, I could support those exceptions. I'd be okay with it, because, as I said before, I don't think we should allow the good to be the enemy of the perfect.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/new-hampshire-senate-candidate-kevin-smith-abortion-ban-exceptions-maggie-hassan/

Yepper ....another misogynistic jerk talking out of both sides of his mouth....