By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a hefty defeat at midterm elections last year and the party aims to ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSWASHINGTON - Abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a hefty defeat at midterm elections last year and the party aims to put the issue at the center of the 2024 fight for the White House.
Reproductive health care decisions are personal, and"the last people who should be involved are these guys," the ad says. Taking a page from Republican ad campaigns of the past, they are stressing Americans' desire to keep the government out of their personal lives. "It's about freedom. We were founded as a country on that principle," said Hassan Martini, who founded the PAC in 2019."Nearly 40% of rural Republicans identify as pro-choice. Who is talking to them? We are,” he said.Most polls, including a Reuters/Ipsos poll in July, show a majority of U.S. voters oppose presidential candidates who favor strict abortion restrictions.
The Supreme Court ruling last year left it up to the states to set their own rules for abortions, leaving women facing a patchwork of different reproductive rights depending on where they live. "No Republican president can ban abortions any more than a Democrat president can ban all those state laws," Haley said, citing the lack of 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to pass such a law.
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