Sophia Bush: The GOP Debate Ignored the Candidates’ Callous Assaults on Abortion Rights

One of the Republican Party’s top missions is to take women's reproductive autonomy away, and yet the seven GOP presidential candidates on stage at the Reagan Library were barely asked to address their radical stance.

In fact, despite the reality that every single one of the GOP hopefuls—including the absent former President Donald Trump—is anti-choice, it wasn’t until the last 15 minutes of the second Republican debate that the topic was even raised—and only to two candidates. And those of us watching the mayhem on stage barely heard their responses, one of which was to parrot the Republican Party lie about Democrats supporting abortions into the ninth gestational month. Newsflash, that’s not a thing. And the GOP hopefuls know it, but they lie anyway.

That candidates were permitted to skirt the issue and promote falsehoods with no fact-checking is simply absurd. Especially given that abortion rights have dominated every election since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year—and have driven record numbers of voters to the polls.

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