Top red flags

Top red flags

• Written extensively in favor of fetal personhood, including promoting legal theories which claim that the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection beginning at conception. 
• Vocal proponent of restricting IVF and believes that frozen embryos should have full legal rights. 
• Advocated for the FDA to withdraw approval of mifepristone, despite decades of research showing that it is extraordinarily safe and effective. 
  

Statements

Statements

• Craddock called on the Trump Administration to withdraw FDA approval of mifepristone, one of the medications used in medication abortion, and to “enforce federal law against trafficking abortion pills.” 
• During a podcast interview, Craddock used false and inflammatory language about abortion and made extreme claims such as calling for a national abortion ban, advancing the concept of fetal personhood, and refusing to confirm if he believes in exceptions for rape and incest. 
• Craddock testified against Colorado abortion protections, spreading misinformation about so-called “abortion pill reversal” and advocating for a local ordinance that would implement the federal Comstock Act at the local level, in an effort to ban the mailing of medical supplies and medication abortion within Pueblo city limits. 
• Craddock believes that life begins at conception and is considered a legal scholar on the topic of fetal personhood within the anti-abortion movement. He has made numerous statements about fetal personhood, including:
  • Argued in a podcast interview that “[c]ourts could and should apply the original meaning of the equal protection clause to ensure that there are protections for preborn children.”
  • Advocated during a legal debate hosted by a law school that “[t]he logic of Dobbs militates toward recognition of the unborn child’s constitutional personhood” under the Fourteenth Amendment.
• Craddock compared abortion to slavery, claiming that “[a]bortion, like slavery before it, can flourish only so long as some members of the human family are considered outside the moral community of persons.”
• Craddock expressed support for weaponizing the federal Comstock Act to restrict access to abortion, including calling it “one of the most promising ways” to advance anti-abortion extremists’ goals. 

Publications

Publications

• Craddock signed on to a letter that outlines the anti-abortion movement’s post-Dobbs policy goals focused on protection of an embryo at conception under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. 
• Craddock co-authored an article expressing opposition to IVF and arguing that the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF decision—which equated frozen embryos with live children—did not go far enough. Craddock believes frozen embryos are human beings and advocated for them to have full legal rights. 
• Craddock signed on to a letter urging the Department of Justice to enforce the Comstock Act and restrict access to medication abortion nationwide. 
• Craddock has written extensively on his anti-abortion stance, including:
  • A piece calling on the anti-abortion movement to advance the concept of fetal personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment in order to effectively ban abortion nationwide.  
  • An article outlining a federal legislative strategy for banning abortion nationwide.
  • An op-ed advocating for the Florida Supreme Court to recognize fetal personhood under the state’s constitution.
    

Extremist connections

Extremist connections

• Craddock worked for the prominent anti-abortion organization Live Action as a legislative strategist. 
• Craddock served as a constitutional legal fellow with the James Wilson Institute, an anti-abortion legal organization. 
• Craddock regularly collaborates with prominent anti-abortion activists, including Kristan Hawkins at Students for Life and Lila Rose at Live Action. 
• Craddock founded “Harvard Law Students for Life.”