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Arizona gubernatorial candidate and MAGA hardliner Kari Lake claimed in an interview aired Sunday that “true choice” means the option for a woman to keep her baby or put it up for adoption. Along the way, she awkwardly tried to reconcile her own recent hardline stance on banning abortion with an electorate that pulled the lever for Joe Biden two years ago.
“I’m for giving women true choices,” Lake said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “When they walk into an abortion center, they’re only given one choice. They’re not told that you have the choice to keep your baby, and we can help, and here’s how. Or, we can help you find a loving family that will adopt your baby.”
Lake, a 22-year veteran of Phoenix’s KSAZ-TV news station, grabbed national attention when she denied Arizona’s election integrity up until she began to run away with her own primary race. She’s since become a bona fide general election contender boosted by the likes of Donald Trump, and embraced some of the harshest abortion bans in the country.