With the 2012 campaign season in full swing, Seven Days has teamed up with VTDigger.org to create a fact-checker feature to test the “truthiness” of claims made by the candidates who want your vote this November.
CLAIM: Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott is “against a woman’s right to choose.”
— September 7 fundraising email by Jerry Greenfield, campaign treasurer for Progressive/Democrat Cassandra Gekas
FACTS: Last week, Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Jerry Greenfield served up some reasons to give money to Cassandra Gekas’ campaign for lieutenant governor. Most amounted to attacks on Phil Scott, the Republican incumbent.
In a fundraising email, Greenfield wrote, “Do you want Phil Scott to be Vermont’s next governor? … He is against a woman’s right to choose.”
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how did the fetal homicide issue come into play on your decision? This is a dog-whistle to pro-life folks, and to me a fairly clear sign as to what his true intentions are. I really don’t think a drunk driver would get away scott free if he hit a pregnant woman and caused a miscarriage, even without a fetal homicide law. No need for a law for that, unless you’re trying to establish that the fetus is a person, ergo abortion = murder.
Twaddle you don’t have enough real news apparently. This is the type of stuff the fetus fetishists always say as they work to institute mandatory motherhood. Why are you busy splitting hairs here?
LSOS Greenfield knows damn well that Scott is not anti-choice. This is bullshit lying politics. Isn’t this the same guy whose company is suing a porn producer for cleverly satirizing B&J’s flavors?
Co-sponsoring a parental notification bill in no way supports a woman’s right to choose. The kinds of restrictions that Scott supports are more than just “a slippery slope toward outlawing all abortions.” When enacted, they are very effective at preventing many women from choosing or accessing abortion services. That is, in fact, the whole point of these restrictions.
This Guy is clearly pro abortion with a few exceptions around the edges . it’s clear he has no respect for the unborn, and most vulnerable in our society. The republican party is a joke and I hope no pro abortion Republican ever wins an election again.