Inside the Harris campaign strategy linking abortion and freedom

The messaging is part of an effort to pick up conservative and independent voters in purple and red states in the wake of the end of federal abortion rights.

Jennifer Gerson
November 4, 2024

Speaking to voters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, last month, former Rep. Liz Cheney — a noted anti-abortion Republican — said that the current state of abortion bans was “not sustainable” and needed to be rethought.

“I think that there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what’s going on in our states since the Dobbs decision, and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need. I think this is an issue that we’re not seeing break down across party lines,” said Cheney, campaigning alongside Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2024/11/harris-abortion-freedom-campaign-strategy/

On Roe anniversary, Biden and Democrats point to November as crucial to restoring abortion

Biden must sell the actions he’s taken on abortion and contraception while convincing voters he and the party can do more if they hold the White House and take control of Congress.

Grace Panetta, Political reporter
January 22, 2024

White House officials and congressional Democrats are marking the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade with a renewed urgency — and framing the 2024 election as pivotal to restoring federal abortion protections.

A year and a half after the Supreme Court struck down Roe’s federal abortion protections in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, over a dozen states have total abortion bans in effect, and more restrict it before fetal viability, leaving patients without access and providers in limbo. While Republican-led legislatures have passed such restrictions, in the same time frame voters have consistently voted to expand abortion rights and rebuked anti-abortion politicians in high-profile elections.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2024/01/roe-v-wade-anniversary-biden-abortion-election-2024/

Democrats in Ohio say they’ll need a new recipe for a second huge abortion rights win

Advocates were surprised by the results of a vote that could have made it harder to protect access to abortion — but they're not letting that make them overconfident.

Sept. 16, 2023
By Megan Lebowitz

BURTON, OHIO — Abortion rights activists shocked themselves and the Ohio political world when they resoundingly defeated an August proposal that would have made it more difficult to enshrine abortion protections in the state’s constitution.

The next test comes on Nov. 7, when voters will decide whether to adopt a constitutional amendment to preserve access to abortion in a state that has veered increasingly to the right since 2016.

Continued: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-ohio-abortion-second-win-rcna103897

Biden signs executive order aimed at safeguarding abortion rights

By Donald Judd and Kate Sullivan, CNN
Fri July 8, 2022

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday aimed at protecting abortion rights in response to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

"I'm asking the Justice Department, that much like they did in the civil rights era, to do something, to do everything in their power to protect these women seeking to invoke their rights," Biden said at the White House, standing alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/white-house-executive-order-abortion/index.html

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Dems grow alarmed by lack of fear over Roe’s future

Democrats argue that the party needs to act more aggressively ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling expected this summer on a challenge to Roe v. Wade.

by LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ and ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN
04/26/2022

For decades, Democrats insisted that Republicans would invite a major voter backlash if they took aggressive action to curtail abortion rights. Now, as a growing number of GOP-led states do just that, passing a slew of bills curtailing abortion with no exemptions for rape and incest, they fear that voters are uninformed or misinformed about the stakes. And they are sounding the alarm that more is needed to engage voters and warn them that the current slate of laws is just the beginning.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/dems-roe-wade-future-00027932