Anti-Choice Republicans Who Support a National Abortion Ban Agree: They Need Larry Hogan in Senate

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June 5, 2024

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Anti-Choice Republicans Who Support a National Abortion Ban Agree: They Need Larry Hogan in Senate

“It’ll mean the difference between being in the minority or majority”

Anti-choice Republicans are continuing to rally behind Republican Larry Hogan, who they say is key to securing a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Personally recruited by Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Hogan will caucus with Republicans and turn control of the U.S. Senate over to Republicans so they can push forward their extreme agenda, including a nationwide abortion ban.

See for yourself:

• Anti-Choice Republican Leader Mitch McConnell: “We need more Republicans in order to set the agenda. So I support… Hogan.” (Politico, 6/4/24)
• Anti-Choice Texas Senator John Cornyn: “I hope Larry Hogan wins. It’ll mean the difference between being in the minority or majority … And if President Trump wins, as I expect he will, we will all prefer to be in the majority.” (CNN’s Manu Raju, 6/3/24)
• Anti-Choice Missouri Republican Senator and Trump Ally Eric Schmitt, who issued the first trigger abortion ban in the country to go into effect after Roe fell: “I want him to win.” (The Hill, 6/4/24)
• Anti-Choice North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis: “What we don’t want to do is have a scenario where we win the White House and we don’t have a majority in the Senate. That would make no sense at all. President Trump would get nothing done.” (Punchbowl News, 6/4/24)

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan also has a well-documented and extensive record opposing abortion rights:

• Hogan vetoed measures to expand abortion access. CBS News: Maryland’s GOP Governor Larry Hogan vetoes bill to expand abortion access. “Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a measure Friday that would expand access to abortion in the state by ending a restriction that only physicians can provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost.”
• Hogan refused to fund abortion providers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked decision to overturn Roe. Axios: Maryland governor says he won’t release money for abortion training. “Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he will withhold $3.5 million in state funds budgeted to train new abortion providers in the state.”
• Hogan will not commit to supporting judges who will uphold abortion rights. New York Times: After winning Maryland’s Republican Party nomination, Hogan refuses to commit to opposing judges who would further threaten Marylanders’ reproductive rights. “On Thursday, Mr. Hogan said that he would not… use a judge’s prior rulings or views on abortion as a ‘litmus test’ when deciding whether to confirm nominees.”