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Anita Lopez Endorsed by Pro-Choice PAC, Emily’s List
Toledo mayoral candidate raises suspicion as America’s pro-life voice grows
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“Anita is opposed to any actions that limit access to reproductive health care for women.”
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Today’s Toledo Blade showcases the recent endorsement of Anita Lopez, a mayoral candidate for Toledo, by Emily’s List, a national abortion rights PAC that seeks to elect pro-choice Democratic women to office. Lopez has picked up the pro-choice endorsement as Toledo verges on closing its last abortion clinic, thereby restoring life to the city.
Lopez appears to be treading carefully around the recent endorsement, and for good reason. Multiple polls this year alone have shown that more and more Americans are supporting pro-life policies. As America’s pro-choice voice diminishes, the Lopez team is seeming to send mixed messages on the pro-choice group’s endorsement:
According to the Blade, Lopez’s line went dead after the newspaper asked her about the endorsement. She could not be reached for comment afterward.
Furthermore, while Diane May, a spokeswoman for Lopez, told the Blade that she is “honored by the group’s endorsement,” she declined to detail the content of the Emily’s List questionnaire that Lopez completed in her application for the endorsement.
May also told the Blade, “Anita is opposed to any actions that limit access to reproductive health care for women.”
According to the Blade, Anita Lopez, who would be Toledo’s first Latina mayor, is Catholic, as well as an “active church-goer.”
As Toledo’s first Latina mayor and a practicing Catholic, Anita Lopez would undoubtedly be out of touch with the 53 percent of Hispanic Catholics who say that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
Lopez’s spokesman says that Lopez is opposed to “any” restrictions on a woman’s access to “reproductive health care,” a phrase often used in place of “abortion.”
One has to wonder whether Lopez is so extreme as to even oppose late-term abortion restrictions, or even the 20 week ban that a majority of Americans, especially women, support.
If so, Lopez has nothing to gain from talking too openly about her abortion politics in pro-life America.
Founded in 1967, Ohio Right to Life, with more than 45 local chapters, is Ohio’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement in Ohio, ORTL works through legislation and education to promote and defend innocent human life from conception to natural death. |
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