Paul Blumenthal is a senior reporter with the HuffPost Politics team based in Washington, D.C. He covers courts, elections, political economy and political history.
Pennsylvanians will vote on a new state Supreme Court justice on Nov. 7 in what will be the latest test of the ongoing political fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which ended the national right to an abortion.
In the 2022 midterm elections, abortion was front and center in Democrats’ campaign to beat back an expected “red wave” that would sweepinto office across the country. But that wave never broke as Republicans barely won control of the U.S. House, lost a seat in the Senate and lost key races in a number of swing states. That included losing the governor’s race and the state assembly in Pennsylvania.
Planned Parenthood and other McCaffery supporters have attacked Carluccio for removing a biography with anti-abortion rhetoric, which said she was a “Defender of 2nd Amendment Rights and All Life Under the Law,” from her website after winning the Republican Party primary. Carluccio’s campaignin an editorial board interview with Pennsylvania newspapers that the bio, created by a former political consultant, was removed following a website redesign.
Planned Parenthood has teamed up with a coalition of groups aligned with reproductive rights advocates and the Democratic Party to fund a large-scale advertising and grassroots campaign for McCaffery. Planned Parenthood Votes, the organization’s political arm, is running a seven-figure ad buy in support of McCaffery, its largest ever investment in a state supreme court race.
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