“Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors” in jail.”
What PolitiFact found
Over a dozen Republican-controlled states have passed abortion laws that permit jail sentences for doctors. 45 Senate Republicans backed a bill that would impose a prison sentence of up to five years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
National Republican Senatorial Committee (The committee to elect more Republicans to the U.S. Senate) made this claim around 3 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 May 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
National Republican Senatorial Committee has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- documentcloud.orghttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21847940-nrsc-memo-on-dobbs?responsive=1&title=1
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