Home Speaker Mike Johnson spent a part of his spring recess in California headlining a fundraiser for Develop the Majority CA, a committee devoted to simply that—electing extra California Republicans to Congress and conserving these already there in workplace. A handful of these members—together with John Duarte, David Valadao, Michelle Metal, Younger Kim, and Mike Garcia—are among the many most weak incumbents, all within the group of Republicans who characterize districts that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. It’s in no way outstanding that Johnson helps increase cash for them. What’s outstanding is who hosted the fundraiser: Richard and Karen Spencer.
On the floor, they’re common rich Republicans who personal a building firm. Under the floor, they’re “Lifeline Supporters” of Central California Proper to Life, as proven on this invitation to a vacation fundraiser final 12 months. Based on Richard Spencer’s bio as a board of governor on the conservative Catholic Thomas Aquinas Faculty (the place Justice Samuel Alito likes to hang around), he has been “on the forefront of the formation and progress of Central California Proper to Life.”
The place does the Central California Proper to Life lie on the forced-birth spectrum? On the furthest excessive, as much as and together with opposing all IVF.
It embraces “analysis” that features a reference to an internet site that describes why the Catholic Church opposes IVF, saying it’s “harmful for the kid and treats the kid and couple as in the event that they had been a part of a producing course of, and never a household.” They oppose hormonal contraception, and label the morning-after tablet as an abortifacient—all of which embrace the unconventional concept that fertilized eggs are folks.
And the Spencers, the hosts of that fundraiser, should consider all these issues too since they’ve been so instrumental within the “formation and progress” of the group. That’s who these supposed average Republicans are to assist finance their campaigns. These are a few of the members most painted right into a nook on abortion and significantly IVF.
Like Rep. Michelle Metal of California, who famously touted her assist for the process, saying “[a]s somebody who struggled to get pregnant, I consider all life is a present. IVF allowed me, because it has so many others, to start out my household,” whereas on the identical time being a co-sponsor of the Life Begins at Conception Act, which might set up that life begins at fertilization.
Now Metal and others are attempting to get out of this bind with a non-binding decision that claims they assist IVF however will do nothing to truly shield entry to it. In the meantime, they’re taking the cash of forced-birth extremists who wish to finish IVF, together with banning efficient contraception and all abortions.
These so-called moderates are as unhealthy as Trump in the case of reproductive well being points. They, like him, will say something to win. They’ll take anyone’s cash—and the strings which can be hooked up—to remain in workplace.
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