The Nevada Independent did a thing about how Sam Brown doesn’t talk about his position on abortion. It’s a bad article based on a really stupid premise. Is Sam Brown running as a Republican? If so, it is blindingly obvious that he is in favor of banning abortion from the moment of conception until he actually says otherwise. That’s the most bankable thing in politics that exists in 2023.
Then there’s this section:
Would he support a national abortion ban?Brown has notably avoided the question. In an interview this summer after announcing his candidacy, Brown declined to say whether he would support or oppose a national abortion ban. He said he would not “deliberate on hypothetical legislation.”
But that has not stopped Democrats from claiming that he will support such a ban. State Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas) said at a press conference last week that national Republicans are “all in on Sam Brown” as a way to get “the votes that they need to bring a nationwide abortion ban to the floor of the U.S. Senate.”
Backing up their statements, Nevada Democrats point to Brown’s 2014 support for Texas’ then 20-week ban on abortion. At the time a state legislative candidate, Brown described the issue as “nonnegotiable” in a candidate forum.
Still, Brown has largely avoided answering questions about a national abortion ban in interviews with other media outlets.
That’s it. That’s the entirety of the answer to that question. There is no mention of the fact that Republicans across the country are introducing bills that would ban abortion as early as 15 days from conception gestation and that Brown would almost certainly vote alongside all of his fellow GOPers.
When we are under the thumb of these assholes, I’ll be thanking the Nevada Independent for making sure to make them look a little better than their personalities and politics allow.