In a crowded race for the seat Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe is relinquishing in January 2023, candidate T.W. Shannon vows to follow the state's trend of minimizing abortion access by promising to uphold 'the right and the sanctity of life.'
In a crowded race for the seat Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe is relinquishing in January 2023, candidate T.W. Shannon vows to follow the state's trend of minimizing abortion access by promising to uphold"the right and the sanctity of life."
— T.W. Shannon May 3, 2022 Shannon, who is black, began running campaign television ads earlier this month accusing the abortion advocacy group Planned Parenthood of being “the true face of white supremacy.” However, the CDC data that tracks race data from mothers seeking abortion found a disproportionate 38% of the procedures happened among black women, despite black people comprising just 12% of the population in 2020.
Since Shannon retired from the Oklahoma legislature in 2014 at the age of 36, he went back to school and finished his degree in law at Oklahoma City University by the age of 40.