Patricia R. Doxsey reports in the Daily Freeman that Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Colin Schmitt outlined their differences on the abortion issue at an Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce “meet the candidates” breakfast Sept. 27. The two are competing for the new 18th Congressional District seat in November. Ryan, the former Ulster County Executive was just elected to be the 19th Congressional District Congressperson for a few weeks, filling in after Antonio Delgado resigned to become lieutenant governor. Schmitt is a two-term Republican assemblyperson from Orange County. Ryan was dismayed about the Supreme Court overturning the Roe vs. Wade decision earlier this year. “I feel pretty strongly this goes squarely against who we are as a country, who we are as a nation,” Ryan said. Then Schmitt said he is pro-life, so in favor of banning abortion, and then falsely claimed that Ryan would permit taxpayer-funded abortion up to the moment of birth and would prohibit parental notification laws. Instead, Ryan said he would reinstate the framework that Roe v. Wade created and called Schmitt’s mischaracterization, “kind of embarrassing, frankly.” The full videos of Schmitt and Ryan speaking at the event are on the WGXC Newsroom. Read more about this story in the Daily Freeman.