Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Candidates Oppose Any Limit on Abortion before Birth

In a Pennsylvania Democratic Senate debate this week, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman was asked: “Are there any limits on abortion you would find appropriate?”

“I don’t believe so, no,” Fetterman replied. 

Fetterman is the front-runner and more progressive candidate in the Democratic race for U.S. Senate, but on the issue of abortion, Congressman Conor Lamb, Fetterman’s Democratic opponent who is often described as a moderate, has staked out an equally radical position:

After the [Women’s Health Protection Act] passed the House in September, National Review asked Representative Lamb, who’d ultimately voted for it, if there were any limits he could support on abortion late in pregnancy. “I think the right to choose is a right all the way through pregnancy,” he said.

Gallup has consistently found that about 70 percent of Americans support parental-consent abortion laws. According to Gallup, about two-thirds of Americans say abortion should be illegal in the second trimester, and more than 80 percent say it should be illegal in the third trimester.