Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema (pictured above, right) once said that stay-at-home moms were “leeching” off their husbands or boyfriends, The Daily Wire reported.

”These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they’re choosing to live that life,” she said in a 2006 interview with Scottsdale nightlife magazine 944, dismissing the hard and important tasks that mothers working inside the home do every day. “That’s bulls***. I mean, what the f*** are we really talking about here?”

Sinema is up against Republican Rep. Martha McSally in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, and McSally may be closing the gap; a poll conducted by The New York Times from October 15 to 19 shows McSally gaining significant ground.

Also bolstering her aggressive anti-family position, Sinema, a strident abortion rights supporter, co-sponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act, which one pro-life advocate explained actually works to protect abortion rights.

Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, told the Senate Judiciary Committee of the bill, as The Daily Wire reported: “We find the formal title or marketing label, ‘Women’s Health Protection Act,’ to be highly misleading. The bill is really about just one thing: stripping away from elected lawmakers the ability to provide even the most minimal protections for unborn children, at any stage of their development.”

She continued, “The proposal is so sweeping and extreme that it would be difficult to capture its full scope in any short title. Calling it the ‘Abortion Without Limits Until Birth Act’ would be more in line with truth-in-advertising standards.”

She added, “The bill would subject any law or government policy that affects the practice of abortion, even indirectly, to an array of sweeping legal tests designed to guarantee that almost none will survive. The general rule would be that any law that specifically regulates abortion would be presumptively invalid … It is apparent that those who crafted this bill believe that, where abortion is involved, immediate access to abortion, at any stage of pregnancy, is the only thing that matters.”

Sinema also declined recently to say whether she regrets saying back in 2003 that she had no problem with Americans wanting to join the Taliban.

Audio from the candidate’s work as an anti-war activist that year includes her saying, “I don’t care if you want to do that, go ahead,” when asked if she would object to Americans going to fight with the Taliban.

Sinema was offered a chance in an interview with the Arizona Republic’s editorial board last Wednesday to say whether she regretted making those comments, reported The Daily Caller.

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“I was opposed to that war in 2003, and 15 years later, that war is still going on and we’ve lost American lives,” Sinema said, opting not to retract her inflammatory remarks.

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In an effort to “explain” the Taliban, Sinema wrote in her book “Unite and Conquer: How to Build Coalitions That Win — And Last,” published back in 2009, “I don’t mean that we should all of a sudden abandon our principles and adopt moral relativism. I just mean that we should consider the idea that perhaps people with views different from our own come about those ideas honestly and that those ideas aren’t inherently evil.”

Sinema has also criticized residents of her own state in the past — the anonymous conservative group The Reagan Battalion this month released a video on Twitter of the candidate telling liberal activists how to “stop your state from becoming like Arizona.”

Her remarks were made in 2011 after Arizona Republicans passed immigration bill SB-1070, a law that was later effectively challenged in court by National Immigration Law Center and other immigrant rights groups.

The video shows Sinema, who is bisexual, speaking to a group while under a banner for the Texas Stonewall Democrats, an LGBTQ organization in that state. She says that people had been calling Arizona “crazy” recently, and blames it on the GOP.

“There’s something wrong with the people in public office in Arizona,” Sinema said. “People are saying the Tea Party, the Tea Party. Those people have been in charge 20 years in Arizona. They’re called Republicans.”

See more in the video below.