Key Votes Will Help Shape Abortion Landscape In Florida, NY, Oklahoma

CNN:
Florida Democrats To Decide Tuesday Who Would Be Best To Take Abortion Fight To DeSantis 

On this, the Democratic candidates for Florida governor agree: New restrictions on abortion within the Sunshine State and uncertainty about the way forward for ladies’s well being throughout America have reinvigorated their voters and elevated the urgency to their effort to knock off Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall. … Democratic voters in Florida would be the remaining arbiters on Tuesday when the state holds its main, one of many final of the 2022 midterm cycle. (Contorno, 8/22)

FiveThirtyEight:
13 Races To Watch In Florida And Oklahoma  

In the aftermath of its June 28 main, the Sooner Oklahoma has two notable GOP runoffs. Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin and former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon will meet in a runoff within the particular election for Senate to succeed Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, who introduced earlier this 12 months that he would resign. … Shannon has struggled to outflank Mullin on the precise, as their lone debate confirmed they largely agree on most points, together with help for abortion bans and Trump’s false declare that the 2020 election was rigged. (Skelley, 8/23)

CNN:
Special Election For Upstate New York House Seat Offers New Test Of Political Energy Around Abortion 

As leaders from each events seek for clues about what lies forward in November, the vote right here on Tuesday – to interchange Antonio Delgado, a Democrat who left to change into lieutenant governor – has emerged as a nationwide barometer of the political power unleashed by the excessive court docket’s determination to finish the nationwide proper to abortion. It’s a check of whether or not Democrats, even in a politically unpredictable congressional district like New York’s nineteenth, can translate the anger of their base, and considerations over the implications of the ruling that minimize throughout social gathering traces, right into a potent midterm message. (Krieg, 8/22)

Roe v. Wade weighs closely on the race in Pennsylvania —

Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. Voter Registrations: Women Outnumber Men Since Abortion Decision From Supreme Court

The voter registration envelope had been sitting in Kiera Coyle’s bed room for months when her mobile phone began blowing up that Friday in June. Had she seen the news in regards to the Supreme Court? Coyle, an 18-year-old from Willow Grove, had been keen on voting however simply hadn’t gotten round to it, busy getting ready to depart for school, babysitting for an area household, and making journeys to the Jersey Shore. (Terruso and Lai, 8/22)

WHYY:
Suburban Voters Are Key For Doug Mastriano. His Abortion Views Seem To Be Turning Them Off

Many suburban Republicans say they’re having a tough time bringing themselves to vote for his or her social gathering’s nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano. And a number of voters and political operatives doing on-the-ground outreach say his stance on abortion is an enormous purpose why. In this race to guide purple Pennsylvania, the distinction between the candidates is stark. (Meyer, 8/22)

In different news about reproductive rights —

Axios:
Exclusive: Yelp To Flag Listings For Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Yelp is including a distinguished client discover to disaster being pregnant heart listings to extra clearly distinguish them from clinics that present abortion companies, in a coverage change shared first with Axios. The large image: Yelp’s transfer is the newest tech-company response to a post-Roe world wherein abortion information has change into a major on-line battleground, with either side of the talk making use of intense strain. (Fried, 8/23)

Politico:
White Coats In The State Capital: OB-GYNs Become Political Force In Abortion Wars 

Red state lawmakers speeding to cross new abortion restrictions are being stymied by an surprising political pressure — OB-GYNs. These physicians — a lot of whom have by no means earlier than mobilized politically — are banding collectively within the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, lobbying state lawmakers, testifying earlier than committees, forming PACs, and launching on-line campaigns towards proposed abortion restrictions. Legislators who’re themselves physicians are utilizing their medical backgrounds to influence colleagues to reduce a number of the extra restrictive and punitive parts of anti-abortion legal guidelines being thought-about. (Ollstein and Messerly, 8/22)

AP:
College Students Return To Campus Without Access To Abortion 

Students returning to varsity are confronting a brand new actuality in states akin to Texas, Ohio and Indiana: Abortion, an choice for an unplanned being pregnant after they had been final on campus, has since been banned, typically with few exceptions. Students mentioned they’ve made adjustments each public and intimate for the reason that U.S. Supreme Court determination this summer season that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Students mentioned they’re utilizing extra contraception, and a few have made a plan to depart the state for an abortion in the event that they change into pregnant. They’re additionally taking public stances, with elevated activism by each opponents and supporters of abortion rights. (Rodgers and Franko, 8/22)

NBC News:
Mom Fighting Abortion Bans After Her Daughter’s Death Points To Her Homeland As A Cautionary Tale

On the eve of the anniversary of her daughter’s dying Tuesday night time, Rosa Hernández was having hassle falling asleep. She mentioned she might nonetheless really feel the presence of her 16-year-old youngster Rosaura “Esperancita” Almonte Hernández, who died a decade in the past when she had leukemia. Doctors had delayed giving Rosaura chemotherapy as a result of she was pregnant, they usually did not wish to hurt the fetus. (Acevedo, 8/19)