Darren Bailey's running mate maintains abortion as 'sin against God'
<p>Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey has dialed back his stance on abortion, even omitting it from his policy platform. But that hasn’t stopped the downstate farmer and former GOP legislator from campaigning on it.</p><p>Bailey and his running mate, Aaron Del Mar, spoke at a “Save America” rally in Springfield earlier this week.
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<p>Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey has dialed back his stance on abortion, even omitting it from his policy platform. But that hasn’t stopped the downstate farmer and former GOP legislator from campaigning on it.</p><p>Bailey and his running mate, Aaron Del Mar, spoke at a “Save America” rally in Springfield earlier this week. The event was sponsored by anti-abortion organization Illinois Family Action, the political arm for the Illinois Family Institute which regularly lobbies against bills expanding abortion access in Springfield.</p><p>During his six minute-speech, Del Mar railed against Illinois abortion laws, saying Gov. JB Pritzker, who is running for an historic third-term, is “willing to murder millions of babies.”</p><p>“Nobody wants to make Illinois a Mecca for abortions from everyone around the country to come here and sin against God,” Del Mar said, drawing applause from the audience.</p><p>But the Cook County GOP chairman said, in a July interview with WBEZ as part of a media tour promoting his slate’s economic policies, that abortion is not on their legislative agenda this time around.</p><p>“No matter how many times JB Pritzker and the Democrat majority try to say that Darren and Aaron are going to try to take away women's access to reproductive care, that is a flat-out lie,” Del Mar said.</p><p>Bailey and Del Mar’s campaign did not return requests for comment.</p><p>In a statement, Pritzker’s campaign spokesperson said Bailey and Del Mar are focused on “spreading the extreme MAGA agenda by attacking women’s right to choose, supporting Trump’s failing economic agenda, and spreading far-right conspiracy theories.”</p><p>Bailey faces an uphill battle, once again, as he faces off with incumbent and self-funded billionaire Pritzker.
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- <p>Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey has dialed back his stance on abortion, even omitting it from his policy platform. But that hasn’t stopped the downstate farmer and former GOP legislator from campaigning on it.</p><p>Bailey and his running mate, Aaron Del Mar, spoke at a “Save America” rally in Springfield earlier this week.
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