What Montanans Are Reading: Sheehy Calls Young Women “Indoctrinated” Over Abortion Access

Another disparaging audio clip from Tim Sheehy has surfaced. Instead of recognizing that women have the right to form their own opinions about access to reproductive care, Sheehy claims that pro-choice women are being “indoctrinated” and “single-issue voters.” In doing so, Sheehy is attempting to deny or delegitimize women’s valid opinions about abortion access because it’s politically inconvenient for him.

In the audio, Sheehy also compares abortion to “murder” yet again, further cementing just how extreme and out of touch his views really are.

Once again Sheehy’s harmful rhetoric is on full display, this time aimed at pro-choice women who simply believe they should have the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions.

What Montana voters are reading:  

DAILY MONTANAN: More recordings show Sheehy disparaging Natives, federal government, Tester

Sheehy admitted that Democrats are beating Republicans at the “ground game” on the subject of abortion.

NBC: Montana GOP Senate candidate says women have been ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion

And it’s all about pro-choice, pro-choice. Well, ‘Republicans are pro-life.

NEW YORK TIMES: Tim Sheehy was recorded saying young people were ‘indoctrinated’ to support liberal causes.

Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate in a crucial Senate race in Montana, said at a campaign event last year that young people had been “indoctrinated” to support liberal causes and that women who cared about abortion rights above other issues should be told that the Democratic Party supported “murder.”

HUFFINGTON POST: Montana GOP Senate Candidate Says Young Women Are ‘Indoctrinated’ On Abortion Issue

They’ve been indoctrinated for too long,” Sheehy said in recordings made public on Monday. “Abortion is their No. 1 concern. It’s all they want to talk about. They are single-issue voters. It’s all about pro-choice, pro-choice, ‘Republicans are pro-life, they want to take my rights away and lock me up and throw me away in prison.’”

INDEPENDENT: Republican in key Senate race claims young women are ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion in unearthed recording

I sat with a group of younger folks a couple of months ago, talking about just various issues, and one of them was life. Because of course, young women between the ages of 19 and 30, abortion is their number one concern.

THE HILL: Montana GOP Senate candidate says young women are ‘single-issue voters’ on abortion

The audio reveals additional comments that Sheehy made at campaign stops in 2023 beyond the previously reported ones he made mocking Crow Tribe members. These newly reported comments concern abortion, which has been a rallying issue for supporters of abortion rights and a potential vulnerability for Republicans following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

MEDIA ITE: New Tape Shows GOP Senate Candidate Slamming Women As Being ‘Indoctrinated’ Into Committing ‘Murder’ With Abortions

Furthermore, a full review of all the recordings also demonstrates Sheehy repeating a debunked claim that doctors are allowed to kill infants after they’re born.

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