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- Republican Blake Masters quashed some anti-abortion language on his website after his primary win.
- The change comes as some Republicans are said to be concerned about how abortion may sway voters.
- Masters, who was endorsed by Trump, won the GOP Senate primary in Arizona on August 2.
US Senate candidate Blake Masters appears to have removed some of the more extreme anti-abortion stances from his website after securing the GOP nomination in Arizona earlier this month.
Masters, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won his primary on August 2 and is set to face incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in November.
Masters' campaign website described him as "100% pro-life" and said he supported a "federal personhood law (ideally a Constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may be killed," according to screenshots taken by Insider in May.
But now, that language has been removed and his stance on abortion softened. NBC News reported the website was updated on Thursday this week.
The website still outlines his support for the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funds from being used on abortions, and calls for taxpayer funding to be stripped from Planned Parenthood.
But it no longer says Masters is calling for a "federal personhood law," which could prevent abortion from being legal even at the state level. Instead, his website now says he supports a "law or a Constitutional amendment that bans late-term (third trimester) abortion and partial-birth abortion at the federal level" — a significantly less extreme position.
Screenshot, blakemasters.com/Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
The updated website also now says he supports programs that help pregnant women provide for a family and decide not to have an abortion.
Also removed since May was a promise to only vote for judges who disagree with Roe v. Wade and believe there is "no constitutional right to an abortion." The Supreme Court overruled Roe in June, striking down the Constitutional right to an abortion that had been recognized for nearly 50 years.
The revisions to Masters' website comes as some Republicans are said to be worried over the impact Roe's reversal could have on the general election.
The same week Masters won his primary in Arizona, voters in Kansas became the first to directly confront the issue of abortion at the ballot box since the fall of Roe. Voters in the solidly red state decisively rejected an amendment that would've weakened the right to an abortion in the state.
Masters' campaign did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert contributed reporting.
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