{"id":1531125,"date":"2022-06-28T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531125"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:21:08","slug":"pennsylvanias-governor-race-focuses-on-abortion-following-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvanias-governor-race-focuses-on-abortion-following-supreme-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s Governor Race Focuses on Abortion Following Supreme Court Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvanias-governor-race-focuses-on-abortion-following-supreme-court-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Abortion is now front and center in the gubernatorial race in Pennsylvania after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving states to individually set abortion access laws.<\/p>\n<p>The race is very tight between Pennsylvania state Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-backed-doug-mastriano-wins-pennsylvania-gop-gubernatorial-primary_4473436.html\">Doug Mastriano<\/a>, a Republican, and Pennsylvania Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-josh-shapiro\">Josh Shapiro.<\/a>, a Democrat. The <a href=\"https:\/\/states.aarp.org\/pennsylvania\/new-aarp-pa-poll-voters-50-could-tip-the-scales-in-2022\">latest election poll<\/a> by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), released two days before the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, showed Shapiro holding a slim lead\u201449 percent to 46 percent\u2014over Mastriano.<\/p>\n<p>On June 26, Shapiro took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshShapiroPA\/status\/1541141260257398784\">Twitter<\/a> to say what he would do if elected governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Governor, I won\u2019t hesitate to veto any bill that undermines a woman\u2019s right to choose in Pennsylvania,\u201d he wrote. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doug-mastriano\">Doug Mastriano<\/a> wouldn\u2019t hesitate to sign that bill into law\u2014and outright ban abortion in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/11\/03\/josh-shapiro-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 2, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Hours after his initial Twitter post, Shapiro said he would continue the pro-abortion stance of the current Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Pennsylvania, women still have the choice\u2014and that\u2019s because of the veto pen of our Democratic Governor,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cWe can\u2019t lose that veto pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One day earlier, Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillytrib.com\/news\/local_news\/josh-shapiro-rallies-for-abortion-rights-in-philly-as-pa-governor-s-race-stakes-heighten\/article_3c8af8a8-f568-11ec-ac68-fff39c27d725.html\">held a rally<\/a> at Philadelphia\u2019s National Constitution Center, during which he told his supporters to vote in November and pledged his support for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/supreme-court-strikes-down-roe-v-wade-abortion-precedent_4555931.html\">overturned<\/a> Roe v. Wade, a seminal 1973 ruling that largely legalized abortion nationwide, on June 24 following a 6\u20133 decision. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the court\u2019s majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/read-supreme-court-opinion-striking-down-roe-v-wade_4556060.html\">opinion<\/a>, said that \u201cRoe was egregiously wrong from the start,\u201d and \u201cIt is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people\u2019s elected representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abortion has become illegal in some states with so-called trigger laws, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion is now front and center in the gubernatorial race in Pennsylvania after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving states to individually set abortion access laws. The race is very tight between Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican, and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat. 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