“Democrats Have to Get Out of Their Own Way”: Pennsylvania’s Next Governor Will Decide on Abortion Rights

For the last four years, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor Tom Wolf’s veto has been the only thing preventing radical abortion bans from becoming law in the commonwealth. He is term-limited, and unable to run for reelection, setting up one of the most contentious governor’s races of this midterm cycle. The state’s primary took place just weeks before Roe was overturned, and now the rights of millions of Pennsylvanians will come down to the November election. Democrats are running Josh Shapiro—the current Pennsylvania attorney general and a longtime abortion-rights advocate—to replace Wolf. He will be up against Republican Doug Mastriano—a Pennyslvania state… Read Full Article