“Joe Biden and the Democrats have and will continue to spread lies about where Republicans stand on abortion and women’s health care …. Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors and women in jail.”
Rick Scott
Senator (R-Fla.). in an National Republican Senatorial Committee memo. Claim dated 3 May 2022.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Republicans have promoted many laws that would jail doctors who perform abortions
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rick Scott (Senator (R-Fla.)) made this claim around 3 May 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- documentcloud.orghttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21847940-nrsc-memo-on-dobbs?responsive=1&title=1
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