“This is more than a Democratic issue,” Ford said. In April, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced a $16 million paid media campaign “to educate and increase urgency around the abortion access crisis facing the country.” “We’re talking to pro-life Americans, who don’t always vote in non-presidential election years, and people we’ve identified as being persuadable, so the infamous women in the suburbs, Hispanic voters, Black voters, traditional Democratic voting groups,” she continued.īut Democrats and abortion rights groups are pouring in money as well. “This is going to be hugely mobilizing for pro-life Americans, who have now seen the fruition of their past political engagement, especially the last 10 years when we’ve focused heavily on Senate races and the White House to give us this court,” said Mallory Carroll, vice president of communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America launched a $2 million digital ad buy in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for two weeks. On Thursday, the conservative anti-abortion group Susan B. It is not something that takes second seed to any of the other issues and nor do other issues take second seed to this.”Īnti-abortion organizations are signaling they want to play a leading role in the midterms. “We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D), who also serves as co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association. They want to be able to put food on the table and gas in their cars.”ĭemocrats say they are keenly aware of the role other issues, like inflation, are playing in campaign discourse, but argue that abortion access is an economic and health care issue. “People in this area and in my part of the state across the border here are struggling to make ends meet and they don’t care about those issues over there,” Mastriano, who’s up against Democrat Josh Shapiro, said. Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano downplayed the ruling, saying in a statement that Democrats want to use the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe to distract voters from issues that matter more to them. “This ruling does nothing to change the fact that voters’ top concerns are rising prices, soaring crime, and the disaster at the southern border,” she continued. “Today’s Supreme Court ruling returns the issue of abortion to the states and allows voters to decide whether they agree with Democrats’ extreme support for taxpayer-funded late term abortion,” said Samantha Bullock, spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. However, other Republicans are signaling they intend to stay laser-focused on their messaging regarding inflation, crime and the border. Republicans will continue to advocate for life, uphold the law, and stand against an extreme Democrat Party’s pro-abortion agenda,” McDaniel said. “As this debate now returns to the states and the American people, we know there is still much work ahead. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also rolled out a statement exclaiming “Life wins!” “Having been given this second chance for Life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land,” Pence said in a tweet. Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rightsįormer Vice President Mike Pence seemed to confirm those concerns when he called for a nationwide abortion ban on Friday.