Midterms’ Biggest Abortion Battleground: Pennsylvania
HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Jan Downey, who calls herself “a Catholic Republican,” is so unhappy about the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of abortion rights that she is leaning toward voting for a Democrat for Pennsylvania governor this year.Linda Ward, also a Republican, said the state’s current law allowing abortion up to 24 weeks was “reasonable.”
After a draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would end the constitutional guarantee of abortion rights was leaked last week, Republicans downplayed the issue, shifting attention instead to the leak itself and away from its substance. They also argued that voters’ attentions were fleeting, that abortion was hardly a silver bullet for Democratic apathy and that more pressing issues — inflation and President Joe Biden’s unpopularity — had already cast the midterm die.
“The legislature is going to put a bill on the desk of the next governor to ban abortion,” said Josh Shapiro, a Democrat running unopposed for the party’s nomination for governor. “Every one of my opponents would sign it into law, and I would veto it.” Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, has been primarily known for defeating multiple cases brought by supporters of Donald Trump claiming fraud after he lost Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes in 2020.
Democratic operatives hope abortion will keep those independent voters — who have since swung against the president in polls — from defecting to Republicans. Pennsylvania’s large Roman Catholic population — about 1 in 5 adults — has afforded electoral space for a tradition of anti-abortion Democratic officials, including Sen. Bob Casey Jr., and his father, Bob Casey Sr., who served as governor. A law that the senior Casey pushed through the legislature in the 1980s included some abortion restrictions, which was challenged in the 1992 Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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