Reichert works to fend off Democrats' claims he'd try to restrict abortion as governor

Republican Dave Reichert says he will uphold Washington’s abortion law if elected governor. A top Democratic Party leader and abortion rights activist said Wednesday they don’t believe him.

Reichert, in an ad posted online last week, says he won’t change a law put in place by voters in 1970, that made abortion legal up to the point where a fetus is viable.

“I do not believe any politician regardless of personal belief has the right to make that decision for any woman,” he says in the 30-second spot that will air more widely this summer.

But Shasti Conrad, chair of the state Democratic Party, called the ad “extremely misleading” and an attempt to “distract” from Reichert’s anti-abortion record while serving in Congress.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/06/12/reichert-works-to-fend-off-democrats-claims-hed-try-to-restrict-abortion-as-governor/