Section Overview

Abortion and Family Planning

Section Overview:

• Walker said that he was “100% pro-life” and would always vote for pro-life legislation “even if the legislation is not perfect.” Walker said he was pro-life “from the womb to the tomb.” 
  
   
• In 2020, Walker cut an ad for Senator Kelly Loeffler and touted her anti-abortion stance as a reason to vote for her.
  
   
• Walker attacked Senator Raphael Warnock for being a pro-choice pastor, claiming he was contradicting Martin Luther King and the Ten Commandments.
  
   
• Walker supported outlawing abortion in Georgia and indicated he thought abortion should be illegal. 
  
   
• Walker supported Georgia’s Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which sought to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
  
   
• Walker indicated that he was supportive of Texas’s abortion ban, which banned most abortions after six weeks, including no exceptions for rape and incest, and deputized private citizens to go after persons.
  
   
• Walker spoke at and profited from crisis pregnancy centers. In 2021, Walker spoke to at least three crisis pregnancy centers that sought to deter abortion, and pocketed nearly $50,000 in doing so. 
  
   
• Walker was opposed to dilation and evacuation, a commonly used second-trimester procedure that anti-choice activists called “dismemberment.”
  
   
• Walker opposed embryonic stem cell research, regardless of the method used to create the embryo.
  
   
• Walker opposed any exceptions for abortion, including rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. 
  
   
• Walker supported Georgia’s legislation that recognized the unborn as victims if they were injured or killed in a crime.
  
   
• Walker supported banning abortions based on genetic abnormality.
  
   
• Walker said he opposed the use of taxpayer dollars going to abortion. 
  
   
• Walker supported mandatory ultrasounds prior to a woman getting an abortion. 
  
   
• Walker supported legislation requiring parental consent, not just notification, for a minor seeking an abortion.
  
   
• Walker supported legislation providing women with information about perinatal hospice when receiving a terminal prenatal diagnosis.
  
   
• Walker supported the Heartbeat Bill, which recognized the fetus as a person when a heartbeat was detected. 
  
   
• Walker supported overturning the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
  
   
• Walker supported requiring “informed consent” at least 24 hours before a woman gets an abortion.