This weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) featured multiple speakers speaking to an audience of one: Donald Trump. The audition to be Trump’s running mate is officially on.
American Bridge took a look at the reproductive health records of Kristi Noem, Byron Donalds, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, three of the top prospects to be Trump’s running mate in the fall.
Kristi Noem
- A self-described anti-abortion absolutist, Noem wanted to see the procedure banned without exception.
- Noem created an “unborn person advocate” in her office as governor. The position was tasked with making South Dakota one of the most anti-abortion states in the country.
- Noem supported fetal personhood policies and abortion bans at the federal level.
Noem worked to make medication abortion harder to obtain and voted to defund Planned Parenthood at least a dozen times while in Congress. - Noem supported so-called “born alive” legislation which would unnecessarily criminalize doctors.
- Noem repeatedly co-sponsored a nationwide abortion ban while in Congress. The legislation could have also threatened access to IVF, the morning-after pill, and IUDs.
- Noem enacted and defended South Dakota’s law banning abortion in nearly all cases after Roe fell. She also threatened doctors who performed abortions under the law with prosecution.
- Noem supported an abortion ban modeled after a Texas law, which banned abortion before most people know they are pregnant. The legislation would not have provided exceptions for survivors of rape or incest and left enforcement up to private citizens.
Byron Donalds
- Donalds denied pushing an abortion ban but supported the Life at Conception Act, which could ban abortion nationally and threaten access to IVF, the morning-after pill, and IUDs.
- Donalds opposed Roe.
- Donalds celebrated after the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe.
- Donalds said the fight to end abortion was not over after Roe v. Wade was
overturned. - Donalds praised the abortion ban in Florida and expressed support for states passing bans.
- Donalds voted against codifying the right to abortion into law.
- Donalds voted against codifying the right to contraception access.
- Donalds voted against providing affordable access to contraception for veterans.
- Donalds voted against allowing the FDA to block states from restricting medication abortion.
Marjorie Taylor Grenee
- Greene opposed Roe and celebrated when it was overturned by the Supreme Court.
- Greene said the fight to end abortion was not over after Roe was overturned.
- Greene was a co-sponsor of the Life at Conception Act, which could ban abortion nationally and threaten access to IVF, the morning-after pill, and IUDs.
- Greene opposed access to contraception.
- Greene voted against codifying the right to contraception access.
- Greene voted against providing affordable access to contraception for veterans.
- Greene railed against other members of Congress who supported contraception.
- Greene voted to restrict access to reproductive care to service members and their families.
- Greene voted against the Defense Department’s reproductive service reimbursement policy.
- Greene falsely said that Plan B killed “a baby in the womb.”
- Greene praised a Texas abortion law that banned the procedure before most people know they are pregnant.
- Greene voted against allowing the FDA to block states from restricting medication abortion.
- Greene supported so-called “Born-Alive” legislation which would unnecessarily criminalize doctors.
- Greene said she wanted to defund Planned Parenthood.
- Greene said that people should remain celibate to avoid abortions.
All of the information above can be found on American Bridge’s Repro-files.com. The microsite is a centralized research hub, containing tracking footage and information on Republicans at every elected level who have taken positions to end abortion access and restrict reproductive rights and health care options.
Published: Feb 26, 2024 | Last Modified: Feb 27, 2024