{"id":2023651,"date":"2023-09-06T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-kentucky-gov-focuses-on-abortion-as-2023-race-heats-up-gop-opponent-calls-strategy-desperate\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:25:48","slug":"dem-kentucky-gov-focuses-on-abortion-as-2023-race-heats-up-gop-opponent-calls-strategy-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-kentucky-gov-focuses-on-abortion-as-2023-race-heats-up-gop-opponent-calls-strategy-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"KY Gov prioritizes abortion in 2023 race; GOP rival criticizes as &#8216;desperate&#8217;."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdem-kentucky-gov-focuses-on-abortion-as-2023-race-heats-up-gop-opponent-calls-strategy-desperate%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=2023651&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--><h2>Democratic Kentucky Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/andy-beshear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Beshear<\/a> Highlights Abortion Issue in Gubernatorial Race<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democratic Kentucky Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/andy-beshear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Beshear<\/a> is highlighting the abortion issue and criticizing his Republican opponent\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-pro-life-gop-a-winning-2024-strategy-survey-data-challenges-democrat-and-media-assumptions\/\" title=\"IN-DEPTH: Pro-Life GOP a Winning 2024 Strategy? Survey Data Challenges Democrat and Media Assumptions\">strong pro-life stance<\/a> as \u200dthe 2023 gubernatorial race heads into its final two months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Beshear campaign released an attack ad last week hitting\u200d Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Beshear\u2019s challenger, for his support for a measure that bans all abortions with the \u200cexception of saving the mother from death or\u200b a disabling injury. Beshear\u2019s ad pressing the abortion issue is airing in rural, urban, and suburban areas of Kentucky, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kentucky-governor-campaign-abortion-4e57bc358ab4466b98b4e2de63076f03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2063to the Associated Press. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen a woman or girl becomes pregnant from rape, the\u200b trauma is unimaginable,\u201d Jefferson County Prosecutor Erin White says in the ad. \u201cDaniel Cameron thinks a 9-year-old rape survivor should be forced\u2063 to give birth. Nobody \u2014 no child \u2014 \u2062should ever have to go through that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beshear shared the ad on X, formerly known as Twitter, writing, \u201cIn this new ad, Prosecutor Erin White says that Daniel\u2064 Cameron\u2019s view\u2064 that survivors of rape or incest\u2014sometimes girls as young as nine\u2014should be forced to give birth, is \u2018extreme, and\u200c it\u2019s \u2063dangerous.\u2019 She\u2019s \u2063right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this new \u200bad, Prosecutor Erin White says that Daniel Cameron\u2019s view that survivors of rape or incest\u2014sometimes girls as young as nine\u2014should be forced to give\u2064 birth, is \u201cextreme, and it\u2019s dangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tR11m9ii1P\">pic.twitter.com\/tR11m9ii1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200cAndy Beshear (@AndyBeshearKY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyBeshearKY\/status\/1697610688531714513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cameron\u2019s campaign responded to the ad in a statement to The Daily Wire, pointing to Beshear\u2019s track record of\u2063 standing with the \u201cextreme\u2062 wing of the Democrat\u2062 Party on abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis desperate attack from \u200cAndy Beshear proves\u200b he\u2019s losing ground and panicked. When it comes to the rights of criminals versus victims, Andy Beshear \u200breleased 1,700 criminals from jail, many of whom went on to commit felonies. Andy Beshear stands with Joe Biden and the most extreme wing\u2063 of the Democrat Party \u200con abortion,\u201d the Cameron campaign said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-kentucky-gov-focuses-on-abortion-as-2023-race-heats-up-gop-opponent-calls-strategy-desperate\/\" title=\"KY Gov prioritizes abortion in 2023 race; GOP rival criticizes as 'desperate'.\">attorney general celebrated major legal victories<\/a> that defended the unborn following the Supreme Court decision\u2062 in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. After the decision, Cameron <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.ky.gov\/Priorities\/Protecting-Life\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">defended<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Kentucky\u2019s trigger law that went into effect banning abortion, leading to the closure of the state\u2019s\u2063 two abortion\u2064 facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats\u200c across the country have celebrated victories \u2063on abortion, including a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/team-behind-5m-bid-to-block-kentucky-pro-life-law-includes-staffer-who-posted-satanic-temple-message-another-marched-with-radical-socialists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ballot measure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that\u200d failed in Kentucky which would have clarified that abortion is not a right\u200c protected by the state constitution. Other red states, such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-life-amendment-in-kansas-was-first-abortion-test-since-roe-v-wade-overturned-heres-how-it-fared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kansas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ohio-voters-reject-proposal-seeking-to-make-it-harder-to-add-abortion-rights-to-state-constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ohio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, also rejected initiatives to further protect the unborn, and Democrats have\u200b signaled they will continue to run on the issue \u200bwhile painting conservatives as extreme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">warned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  conservatives \u2063to be cautious on the \u2063campaign trail\u200c when discussing abortion. Trump advised Michigan Republican candidate Tudor Dixon to \u201ctalk differently about abortion\u201d during her failed 2022 campaign for governor, and Dixon told Trump during an interview last week \u200cthat he was \u201cabsolutely right\u201d to give her the advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cameron, who has been \u200cendorsed by Trump, has focused\u200d much of his \u200bcampaign\u2062 on the economy, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wave3.com\/2022\/04\/21\/louisville-homicides-return-record-pace-landing-city-unflattering-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rising crime \u2063rates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u2062stopping\u200c radical gender theory, including sex-change procedures, from being pushed on children. The attorney general has highlighted his stark\u200b contrast from Beshear on transgenderism. Beshear has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kentucky-gov-backs-transgender-procedures-linked-to-negative-health-outcomes-for-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">maintained<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that he doesn\u2019t support sex change surgeries on minors, but that he does support access to other so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-academy-of-pediatrics-is-destroying-children-heres-how\/\" title=\"The American Academy of Pediatrics Is Destroying Children - Here\u2019s How\">-called \u201cgender-affirming\u201d treatments<\/a>, procedures that have been linked to negative health outcomes for children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, the Democrat governor vetoed a bill banning all transgender procedures, including surgeries, on children, arguing it would \u201ccause an increase in suicide\u200c among Kentucky\u2019s youth.\u201d Beshear\u2019s veto was quickly overridden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAndy Beshear supports making it easier for minor children to get an abortion without their\u200c parents\u2019 knowledge and vetoed a\u2062 bill\u2062 that would require doctors to\u200c provide life-saving care to an infant born alive after a\u2064 failed abortion,\u201d the Cameron campaign told The Daily Wire. \u201cDaniel Cameron is the\u200b pro-life\u200c candidate in this race and will\u2063 work as Governor\u200c to\u200c build a \u200bculture of life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is intensifying his focus on the abortion issue, taking aim at his Republican opponent&#8217;s staunch pro-life position as the 2023 gubernatorial race nears its end. Beshear&#8217;s campaign recently launched a critical ad targeting Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who supports a comprehensive ban on abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2023652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}