Alabama Special Election Flips Seat To Abortion Rights Dem

Democrat Marilyn Lands yesterday decisively won an Alabama state House seat in a long-held Republican district, notching a special-election victory after centering her campaign on abortion acess and in vitro fertilization. Seems like Republicans will pay a price everywhere for their determination to quash women's reproductive rights! Via the Washington Post:

Lands’s win was the latest in a string of Democratic victories around reproductive rights after abortion rights advocates experienced a huge blow nearly two years ago. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — which had established a constitutional right to abortion — in 2022, Democrats have found success in battleground elections and ballot referendums by focusing heavily on protecting abortion rights and running against GOP opposition to them.

Lands beat Republican Teddy Powell by a wide margin — about 25 percentage points — in a politically moderate section of northern Alabama that Donald Trump won by a single percentage point in 2020. Just fewer than 6,000 people voted — offering a limited snapshot of voter attitudes.

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