Democrats See Abortion As A Winning Issue in 2024
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🗞 ABORTION RIGHTS BALLOT WINNING STREAK CONTINUES
One thing we’ve learned over the past couple of elections: Voters show up when abortion access is on the ballot. And it’s sure to be an issue Democrats emphasize in 2024. They’ll be trying to keep the White House and Senate while flipping the House. Let’s dig in:
2023 RACES
On Tuesday, Ohio became the seventh state where voters decided to protect abortion access, with 56.6% of the vote on Tuesday. It is also the latest red state where voters opted vote for abortion rights, after similar votes in Kansas and Kentucky. While Ohio was the only state to have a specific statewide abortion vote this year, it was still a key issue in many contentious races.
Abortion was a central issue in the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court race where Democrat Dan McCaffery won and cemented a 5-2 liberal majority.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called for a 15-week abortion “limit,” rather than the state’s current limit after 26 weeks, when campaigning for GOP state legislatures. Dems won big in both state legislative chambers, so his proposal is now off the table.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D) of Kentucky won a second term, after repeatedly criticizing his Republican opponent for initially backing a state abortion ban that contains no exceptions for rape or incest.
About two-thirds of Americans say abortion should generally be legal in the earliest stages of pregnancy, a sentiment that has been underscored in both Democratic and deeply Republican states since the justices overturned Roe in June 2022. On the GOP side, six in ten Republican men (61%) and women (63%) say that abortion should be illegal in a majority of instances, but not enough to win any of these referendum.
WHAT GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SAY
Appearing to see the trend, GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump isn’t saying much on abortion, telling NBC news: "We're going to agree to a number of weeks or months or however you want to define it… and both sides are going to come together… and for the first time in 52 years, you'll have an issue that we can put behind us."
Trump has claimed credit for the Supreme Court's decision overruling Roe v. Wade, as he appointed one-third of the justices currently on the high court.
However, he has criticized a six-week ban signed into law by rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is one of the loudest anti-abortion GOP voices, calling it "too harsh."
The only female GOP presidential candidate, Nikki Haley, who is pro-life, said at last night’s debate that Republicans need to be honest with their voters that any kind of federal ban won’t happen. (GOP would need 60+ seats in Senate, House majority and White House control).
WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT
Similar to Ohio, ballot measures are expected to be put to a vote in several states next year, including Arizona and Nevada, which are key states for winning the White House.
Here are a few states where you can expect to see abortion access as a key issue in 2024, including a possible ballot measure for voters:
Arizona: Banned after 15-weeks, the governor signed an executive order that bars prosecution of abortion-related cases. Abortion access advocates want to change the state constitution.
Colorado: There are no laws barring abortion, but abortion access advocates want a constitutional amendment to prevent the state from banning it and to overturn a 1984 law that prohibits using state funds to cover the cost of most abortions.
Maryland: It’s legal until viability, but lawmakers have put an amendment on the ballot that includes the “fundamental right” to reproductive freedom.
Missouri: Banned except in the case of medical emergency. Abortion rights advocates are pushing for a constitutional amendment that would bar the government from infringing on a person’s right to reproductive freedom.
Nebraska: Banned after 12-weeks, abortion rights advocates have submitted language to the secretary of state for a ballot question that would expand abortion access.
Nevada: Legal up to 24-weeks, a ballot measure would further enshrine it in the state constitution.
New York: Legal to viability, lawmakers have already placed a question on the 2024 ballot asking voters to add “pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive healthcare and autonomy” as areas where discrimination would be barred.
Pennsylvania: Legal until 24-weeks, Republican lawmakers might push for a ballot question to declare that the state doesn’t grant the right to an abortion, or a right to a taxpayer-funded abortion.
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🗓 ON THIS DAY: NOVEMBER 9
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1967: The first issue of Rolling Stone was published in San Francisco. John Lennon was on the cover.
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