Pennsylvania Democrats are talking abortion rights in the fight to protect their Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground.
The race between Democrat Dan McCaffery and Republican Carolyn Carluccio in the Nov. 7 election will fill an open seat on the seven-seat court and won't change the balance of power. Democrats currently hold a 4-2 advantage on the court.
The court is currently weighing cases involving gun rights and abortion rights, including whether to overturn a law barring Medicaid from covering abortions. In Wisconsin in April, Democrats flipped a conservative seat on the state’s high court as they made abortion rights a focus of the campaign. At Progress PA's Rally for our Rights last week, McCaffery accused the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority of overturning precedent to strip away rights.
McCaffery — an appellate court judge from Philadelphia — has left little doubt about whether he supports abortion rights, and Planned Parenthood's endorsement said it “wants voters to know which candidates are on the side of our reproductive freedom.”In the primary campaign, Carluccio — a Montgomery County judge — on her website called herself a defender of “all life under the law.
A Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation spokesperson said the organization endorsed Carluccio on the basis that she would not “make up” laws.
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