Chavez-DeRemer: A Tale of Two Hypocrisies
The Oregon Republican Tries to Have It Both Ways on IVF & Rural Development
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) has tried to have it both ways on reproductive rights. Last year, the freshman from Happy Valley to touted her pro-life voting record and voting against legislation providing funding for the Food and Nutrition Service.
H.R.4368. The bill Chavez-DeRemer voted against included funding for Child Nutrition Programs, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The legislation also would have also provided funding to USDA for farm production and conservation programs, including the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, the Farm Service Agency, the Risk Management Agency, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
If it seems weird that Chavez-DeRemer, who represents a largely rural district, would be voting against legislation to fund rural development programs, that’s because, well, it is.
On In Vitro Fertilization
Chavez-DeRemer has also touted herself as a supporter of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) by introducing a resolution with Reps. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) and Michelle Steel (R-CA) in support of the procedure. However, Chavez-DeRemer has refused to sign onto Rep. Susan Wild’s (D-PA) bill to actually codify federal IVF protections.
So does she actually support IVF? Unclear, especially after Chavez-DeRemer accepted the endorsement of the Oregon Republican Party (ORP) which has a platform that reads like a Christian nationalist manifesto.
The ORP platform boasts an anti-LGBTQ platform and emphasizes the “right to life that begins at conception” among many other positions most thinking humans would find extreme.
MODERATE? WHERE? Chavez-DeRemer claims to be somewhat of a moderate in Congress while simultaneously endorsing former president Trump—the farthest thing from a moderate in politics.