Mitchell, Harry

U.S. House of Representatives, Arizona district 05

Representative Mitchell is fully pro-choice and received a 100% rating from NARAL in 2007.
On Representative Mitchell’s campaign website, he states: “Congressman Mitchell believes that every woman should have access to comprehensive health care. This includes access to family planning and fundamental medical care, such as breast and cervical cancer screening.
Congressman Mitchell also believes that every person has a fundamental right to decide when and whether to have children, and supports a woman’s right to choose. Mitchell believes that medical decisions, both reproductive and otherwise, should be made between families and their doctors – it is not the role of government to interfere with these decisions.
Mitchell believes it is important that we work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the United State through supporting medically-accurate sex education for our kids, taking steps to prevent teen pregnancy and providing access to pre-natal care for all women.
It is also important that we help countries around the world do the same thing. That’s why Congressman Mitchell does not support the “global gag rule,” which cuts funding for family planning providers in developing countries.”
Representative Mitchell is being challenged by anti-choice Maricopa County Treasurer Dave Schweikert who was endorsed by the Arizona Right to Life.
Representative Mitchell was a co-sponsor of both the Freedom of Choice Act and the Prevention First Act.