On Sept. 10, Premier Eby alleged the BC Conservatives would harm women’s reproductive health by restricting access to abortion and pulling free contraception if they were elected government.
Rustad responded quickly in a social media post: “Under a BC Conservative government, access to abortion, contraception and other items will remain exactly as it is now. There will be no changes.”
Two weeks later, the BC NDP continued repeating the debunked conspiracy theory of Rustad’s secret plan to defund contraception and ban access to abortion.
“Under a John Rustad government, reproductive freedom and other hard-won rights would be at risk, whatever he has to say about abortion today,” stated a Sept. 24 BC NDP news release.