GOP Candidates Distort Records on Women’s Issues

“For months, vulnerable House Republicans have been toiling to appeal to women turned off by their support for policies that would limit reproductive rights,” the New York Times reports.

“With just nine weeks to go until the election, many appear to have settled on a strategy: airbrushing or at times flatly misrepresenting their records in gauzy, family-focused television ads apparently aimed at those voters.”

“Some Republicans are claiming that they support protections for in vitro fertilization that they voted against, or that are at odds with legislation they have backed in the past. Others are vowing they would never ban abortion, though they previously said they would support doing so. One states that he cosponsored pro-woman legislation that he actually opposed.”