October 23, 2024
Former U.S. Representative for Wyoming Liz Cheney has been busy since her brutal defeat during a Republican Primary in 2022. Not content to idly by during an election year, the self-proclaimed” conservative” is campaigning for the most leftist and pro-abortion presidential candidate in living memory.
According to reporting from The Guardian, “At the final event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, against a blue backdrop patterned with the words “country over party”, Cheney, 58, suggested that Republican-led states had overreached in restricting abortion since the supreme court’s 2022 Dobbs decision ended it as a constitutional right.
“I’m pro-life and I have been very troubled, deeply troubled by what I have watched happen in so many states since Dobbs,” said the former Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of the former Vice President Dick Cheney. “I have been troubled by the extent to which you have women who – as the vice-president said, in some cases have died – who can’t get medical treatment that they need because providers are worried about criminal liability.”
Cheney is, of course, wrong about this for numerous reasons.
As we wrote in a previous fact checking article, there are no laws in any of the 50 states that require women’s lives to be put at risk because of their pregnancy.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion organization, all 41 states that have some measure of abortion restriction also have requirements that save the life of the mother. This excludes the nine states and Washington, D.C., that allow abortion through all nine months with zero restrictions.
However, any procedure to remove an ectopic pregnancy, stillborn, or otherwise dead preborn baby isn’t an abortion. Most pregnancy complications, according to Cleveland Clinic, “are treatable, especially when your pregnancy care provider detects them early.”
READ MORE HERE: Is Abortion for Life of the Mother Ever Valid? and What is an Ectopic Pregnancy? and Fact Checking the Fear Mongering by the Abortion Lobby
As for her claim to be pro-life, her record is middling at best. According to our 117th Congressional Report Card, Cheney ranked in the bottom 15 of House Republicans on the issue of abortion, consistently missing key votes or voting against pro-life legislation.
Furthermore, her carrying the water for a political party (her apparent former rivals) that has vowed to get rid of the Senate filibuster to enshrine abortion laws without any restrictions completely undoes whatever good she may have done on the issue. In fact, the sum total of her actions totally moves her out of that category.
All Cheney’s talk of protecting the Constitution and conservatism fails a basic smell test. If she cared about either, she’d be loudly pro-life or not allying herself with the most radically pro-abortion Presidential candidate in history.