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Mike Braun's Running Mate Compares Abortion to Slavery and the Holocaust

New reporting reveals that Mike Braun's running mate, Micah Beckwith, has a long, public history of labeling abortion in the most extreme terms, even going as far as comparing it to "Slavery," the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany.

Throughout their campaign, both Braun and Beckwith have not been shy about broadcasting their anti-choice extremism, with Braun even claiming that the state's extreme abortion ban is "working for Hoosiers." Braun has indicated his support for going further and criminalizing pharmacists, while Beckwith has stated he supports removing exceptions for victims of rape and incest.

Beckwith's extreme rhetoric around abortion is even more alarming as Braun has fully embraced his running mate and his positions, telling Beckwith that "everything you believe in, I have as well."

"Mike Braun and Micah Beckwith have made it clear that when it comes to restricting the reproductive freedom of Hoosiers, they are on the exact same page," said DGA National Press Secretary Devon Cruz. "Indiana already has one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country, and both Braun and Beckwith would go even further. That's too dangerous and extreme for Hoosiers."

Read More About Micah Beckwith's Extreme Labels for Abortion:

• Between 2019 and 2022, Beckwith made several Facebook posts describing abortion as murder and comparing it to various historical atrocities.
• "Without a doubt, abortion is one of the greatest evils this world has ever seen," Beckwith wrote on Facebook in June 2019. "We will overturn Roe v. Wade and end the brutal murder of the most innocent and precious among us!"
• In October 2019, New York state passed the Reproductive Health Act, which codified Roe v. Wade into state law and expanded abortion access for individuals facing life-threatening complications. Beckwith responded by sharing a photo of Nazi concentration camp guards alongside a photo of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing the bill into law.
• "No difference," Beckwith wrote. "The devil is still in the business of deceiving foolish people that some lives are less than human. In 1944 Jews were less than human. Today infants are less than human."
• In 2020, Beckwith ran for U.S. Congress in Indiana's fifth district but failed to advance past the Republican primary. In that race, Beckwith was endorsed by Indiana Right to Life, a far-right group that advocates for total abortion bans.
• "Too many politicians today are willing to compromise on the lives of the unborn - not me," Beckwith wrote in a May 2020 Facebook post touting the endorsement. "I am a conservative outsider, not beholden to the way its always been done. In Congress, I'll defund Planned Parenthood once and for all, not only in Indiana, but across the country."
• "How in the world have we've become a nation where INFANTICIDE is now being defended by 41 US Senators (all Democrat) who were able to block a bill that would have protected precious babies born alive after an abortion?!" Beckwith wrote.
• In 2022, Beckwith compared abortion to slavery and those working to ban it to abolitionists.
• "Abortion is no different than Slavery," Beckwith wrote. "They each devalue another human life. Like the great abolitionist, William Wilberforce, it is now our turn to speak out against the greatest injustice of our day. Let's end abortion!"

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