The nation’s leading abortion rights advocacy organization plans to spend around $50 million during November’s midterm election.
QUICK FACTS:
- Planned Parenthood says it will be pouring $50 million in funds into states where access to abortion will be a major voting factor this November.
- The organization said they will be focusing on swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin and reminding voters what’s at stake in the election, Newsmax reported.
- “Who wins in these midterm elections will determine whether a state has access to abortion and potentially determine whether we will face a national abortion ban,” the executive director of ‘Planned Parenthood Votes,’ Jenny Lawson, said. “We will be clear about who is on which side.”
‘PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES’ ON ABORTION DEFINING THE MIDTERMS:
“There are a lot of issues people care about, certainly, but the state abortion access is absolutely one of the defining issues this November,” LAWSON SAID.
BACKGROUND:
- The effort to push the abortion topic on the ballot comes a few months following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the historical case that created the constitutional right to an abortion.
- Planned Parenthood also intends to reach over 6 million voters through phone calls, digital advertising, door-to-door campaigns, and radio ads.
- “When people vote this November, nearly half of the folks voting could be living in a state that either has already banned abortion or is quickly moving to ban abortion. These are entirely new circumstances,” Lawson said.
