VIDEO: A Stark Warning about Steel's Extreme War on Women's Health

Sep

2024

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VIDEO: A Stark Warning about Steel's Extreme War on Women's Health

Derek Tran Goes on Offense with First General Election Ad Targeting Steel’s Dangerous Anti-Women Record

Garden Grove, CA — Today, the Derek Tran for Congress campaign released its first general election ad, highlighting incumbent MAGA Rep. Michelle Steel’s unpopular and extreme stances against women’s reproductive rights– including her support of the a bill that would ban all abortion without exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother.

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Narrator: "What do Michelle Steel’s plans mean for you?

A national ban on abortion.

With no exception for rape…incest…or your life.

Doctors sent to jail.

Access to birth control denied.

States allowed to monitor your pregnancy.

To question any miscarriage.

What would Michelle Steel’s plans mean for you?

Let’s not find out."

Since taking office, Steel co-sponsored a national federal abortion ban that includes no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother; voted against the Right to Contraception Act, which would protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives; and voted yes on a bill that would have banned FDA approved Mifepristone nationwide. Despite being called out repeatedly by her challenger, army veteran and workers’ rights advocate Derek Tran, as well as the New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine, Steel continues to lie to her constituents about her extreme anti-reproductive rights voting record. In 2021 and 2024, Rep. Steel cosponsored the Life at Conception Act, a bill to enact a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother. Steel voted against the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022, which protects a person's ability to access out-of-state abortion services. She opposed the Women’s Health Protection Act in both 2021 and 2022.

The ad comes out on the heels FBI Raid on Michelle Steel’s former colleague and longtime political ally Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do for the misappropriation of County funds that Steel oversaw and three public polls showing the corrupt Congresswoman in a dead heat with Democrat Derek Tran, election experts at Inside Elections have adjusted their ratings to reflect a more competitive contest. This shift acknowledges the escalating corruption scandals tarnishing Steel's campaign and highlights Tran's surging momentum.

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Army Veteran Derek Tran is a DCCC Red To Blue candidate running in California’s 45th Congressional District which encompasses portions of Orange and Los Angeles Counties in Southern California. A majority-minority district, the District has the second largest AAPI population (36.97%) of any Congressional District, and the largest Vietnamese community in the country. President Biden won the current district lines by +6 points and it has a +6 point Democratic registration advantage. It includes all or part of the Cities of Garden Grove, Westminster, Cerritos, Buena Park, Placentia, Hawaiian Gardens, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Artesia, Los Alamitos, La Palma, Brea, Lakewood, and Fullerton, as well as the unincorporated community of Rossmoor.

Use of Derek Tran's military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Dept. of Defense or U.S. Army.