Abortion rights have taken center stage in the race for Pennsylvania’s next governor amid expectations that the Supreme Court is set to repeal Roe v. Wade this summer.
BIG RUN, Pa. — Abortion rights have taken center stage in the race for Pennsylvania’s next governor amid expectations thatOn Wednesday, state Sen. Doug Mastriano rolled into the Big Run Event Center northeast of Pittsburgh as the frontrunner in the crowded field for next week’s Republican primary. And a major part of his pitch to voters here was his uncompromising stance on abortion.
that would have banned abortion after six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. The bill never reached the desk of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who is being term-limited out of office, but Mastriano said at the time he was “Jenna Ellis, who worked for former President Donald Trump’s legal team, has been campaigning for Mastriano and spoke before him at the Big Run event.
Mastriano is running to the right of most of his competitors in the GOP primary. He was present at the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, andinvestigating the events surrounding the violence that followed. Shapiro continued to lean into his stance on abortion rights, despite speaking in a county where Trump won 75% of the vote in 2020: “It is also clear to me that the next governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will have a bill on his desk that outright bans abortion. Every one of my opponents will sign that bill into law. I will veto it.”
With no primary opponent, Shapiro’s campaign has begun running television ads highlighting Mastriano’s record and statements on abortion.
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