Wardlow has repeatedly made clear he would politicize the Attorney General’s Office to limit a woman’s right to choose
Wardlow peddles discredited conspiracies about the University of Minnesota and Planned Parenthood
Minnesota – During tonight’s Attorney General debate between Congressman Keith Ellison and Doug Wardlow on KSTP, Wardlow was pressed on his intention to use the Attorney General’s Office to advance his anti-choice views against Minnesota women. Wardlow has made it clear that he strongly opposes a woman’s right to choose, and that he would make it a “priority” to use the power of the state’s top legal office to enforce his views on Minnesota.
“I am absolutely 100 percent pro-life, and that will be a priority in the Attorney General’s Office,” said Wardlow at the Minnesota State Fairin 2017.
Last month, a Wardlow campaign document was released, stating that “Doug Wardlow will institute these duties when he is your MN Attorney General,” including: “Prosecute illegal trafficking of fetal body parts.”
This refers to Wardlow’s belief in a discredited, far-right conspiracy theory which has inflamed violence. As Rewire News reports, this rhetoric “comes from the anti-choice front group called the Center for Medical Progress and its discredited anti-abortion propaganda videos, which falsely alleged Planned Parenthood profited from legal donations of fetal tissue.”
Recent polling from Minnesota Public Radio News and the Star Tribune shows that only 12 percent of Minnesotans share Doug Wardlow’s hardline view that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. As Attorney General, Congressman Ellison will defend a woman’s right to choose, and will defend access to essential health care for all Minnesotans. Ellison is proud to have a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL Pro Choice.