As a family physician for over 40 years, Dr. Bob Lorinser has a strong reverence for life but believes a patient's room is too small for a woman, her doctor, and the entire federal government.
Dr. Bob is a fierce proponent of choice, privacy, and individual liberty. He will support proven measures to reduce abortion but maintain it as a fundamental right for all pregnant women.
Women must have access to high-quality reproductive healthcare, and we should restore federal funding for services like Planned Parenthood. These vital services provide much-needed medical care for millions of Americans, especially those in underserved areas.
Promoting "life" should mean offering everyone a fighting chance with funding for universal childcare, healthcare, and foster and adoption programs. To Bob, promoting choice means respecting a woman's constitutional right to privacy and access to safe and legal abortion.
Bob will champion initiatives such as:
Supporting children before and after birth
Programs that assist working parents
Increasing access to affordable education from Pre-3 on
Addressing childhood poverty
Improving and promoting adoption services and foster programs
Universal healthcare
Dr. Bob will empower all expecting parents to help their babies succeed in life and will work to protect women's reproductive choices and privacy. We need to increase support and options for women faced with the personal and challenging decision of parenthood.
Codifying Roe V. Wade
Supporting reproductive services
Family planning/contraception
Providing access to safe and legal abortion
Protecting a woman's right to privacy
Proper sex education based on consent
Roe v. Wade, a decision protecting a woman's fundamental right to privacy, should again be the law of the land. As Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated, it is "a woman's right to control her destiny, to be able to make choices without a Big Brother state telling her what she can and cannot do."
Very often, religious beliefs are the foundation of anti-abortion views and should not be the basis for the laws of our country. Ultimately, the government should not be the decider on a woman's medical decisions or religious beliefs.
As a physician, Bob understands that no one anticipates or wants to be in the position to decide to have an abortion. It can be a harrowing decision for everyone involved.
If the goal is abortion prevention, making it illegal is ineffective. It only makes it dangerous. Comprehensive sex education and affordable and accessible birth control are proven to work.
