{"id":2282775,"date":"2024-06-24T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gallego-hits-lake-on-abortion-in-ad-marking-dobbs-anniversary-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:32:29","slug":"gallego-hits-lake-on-abortion-in-ad-marking-dobbs-anniversary-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gallego-hits-lake-on-abortion-in-ad-marking-dobbs-anniversary-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallego hits Lake on abortion in ad marking Dobbs anniversary &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fgallego-hits-lake-on-abortion-in-ad-marking-dobbs-anniversary-washington-examiner%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=2282775&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>The summary pertains to \u200da new digital ad released by Rep. Ruben\u200d Gallego\u200b (D-AZ) targeting his Republican rival,\u2063 Kari Lake, on the issue of abortion. This\u200b ad comes two years after the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s \u200ddecision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health \u200bOrganization, \u2064which overturned Roe\u2064 v. Wade and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roe-v-wade-overturned-after-49-years\/\" title=\"Roe v. Wade overturned after 49 years\">ended constitutional protections<\/a> for \u200dabortion. The ad \u200ccriticizes Lake&#8217;s abortion\u200b stance, highlighting\u2064 her support for \u2064the Dobbs decision, \u2063showcasing clips where she expresses happiness about the decision\u2062 and her firm opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The ad is part of a broader context where Arizona has seen legal shifts regarding abortion laws.\u2062 Previously, the enforcement of a Civil War-era abortion ban was\u200b upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court. This historical ban was later \u2062repealed by \u200bthe Arizona legislature,\u2064 leading to \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-americas-chasm-grows-between-red-and-blue-states-on-hot-button-social-issues\/\" title=\"Two Americas: Chasm Grows Between Red And Blue States On Hot-Button Social Issues\">15-week abortion limit<\/a>\u2062 being set, which was signed into law by Governor\u2063 Katie Hobbs (D-AZ).<\/p>\n<p>Kari Lake, in response to changes \u200bin \u200cthe state&#8217;s legal stance on abortion, expressed opposition to the 1864 ban and released a campaign piece addressing the issue. The Washington Examiner \u2063has reached out to Lake\u2019s\u2063 campaign for comments about Gallego\u2019s ad.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2013 <\/strong>A new digital ad from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ruben-gallego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rep. Ruben Gallego\">Rep. Ruben Gallego<\/a>\u2019s (D-AZ) Senate campaign is targeting Republican rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kari-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kari Lake\">Kari Lake<\/a> on abortion two years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"U.S. Supreme Court\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> overturned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Roe v. Wade\"><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The statewide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nMOACh50ia0&#038;t=2\">ad<\/a> from the Arizona Democrat claims Lake wants to \u201cban abortion\u201d and shows a compilation of clips from the Republican hopeful, including one in which she appears to say she\u2019s \u201cso happy\u201d about the high court\u2019s landmark decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"nMOACh50ia0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kari Lake: Dobbs Anniversary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMOACh50ia0?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen   style=\"display:none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A later clip in the ad shows Lake explaining she\u2019s against the procedure and that she\u2019ll never \u201cever change that stance\u201d or \u201cbend on that stance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will not mess with women\u2019s rights, especially not in Arizona,\u201d Gallego says at the end of the ad. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>reached out to Lake\u2019s campaign for comment on the new ad.<\/p>\n<p>Lake has attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2964939\/kari-lake-tries-to-thread-the-needle-on-abortion-after-arizona-supreme-court-ruling\/\">thread the needle <\/a>on abortion following the revival of the state\u2019s Civil War-era abortion ban, which the Arizona Supreme Court ruled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2959358\/arizona-supreme-court-upholds-civil-war-era-abortion-ban\/\">was enforceable<\/a> following the demise of<em> Roe<\/em>. The state\u2019s legislature later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2987371\/arizona-senate-repeal-1864-abortion-law-sending-measure-governors-desk\/\">voted to repeal<\/a> the ban after a few failed attempts, reverting the state to a 15-week ban. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2989249\/arizona-governor-repeals-abortion-ban\/\">repeal was signed<\/a> by Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) in May.  <\/p>\n<p>Following the Arizona state ruling, Lake came out against the 1864 abortion ban and released an over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPl_hyizHMU\">five-minute video<\/a> on social media emphasizing the law is not what the people of her state want and reiterating that she would not support a federal ban if she is elected to the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n<p>However, that stance was a change from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tested-by-abortion-pill-access-fight-with-uncertain-gop\/\" title=\"Biden tested by abortion pill access fight with uncertain GOP\">anti-abortion rhetoric<\/a> she embraced in her 2022 failed campaign for governor. Lake said in a 2022 interview on \u201cThe Conservative Circus With James T. Harris,\u201d that she was\u00a0 \u201cincredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that\u2019s already on the books.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gallego\u2019s new ad, which comes two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YeF6DwZQ22o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"he released a different one\">he released a different one<\/a> on abortion, is part of a broader push by Democrats linking former President Donald Trump and other Republicans to the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates in the state are working to create their own ballot measures to codify abortion rights until the point of fetal viability, or around 24 weeks. The measure would also allow exceptions later in pregnancy when health concerns are involved. Democrats hope those measures could boost turnout at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Gallego has held a consistent lead over Lake, the leading Republican Senate candidate, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/senate\/general\/2024\/arizona\/lake-vs-gallego\">recent<\/a> polling. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election forecaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3007937\/democrats-get-leg-up-battleground-arizona-senate-race\/\">changed<\/a> its prediction from \u201ctoss-up\u201d to \u201clean Democrat\u201d recently in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), an independent who caucuses with Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ruben Gallego\u2019s (D-AZ) latest Senate campaign ad criticizes Republican Kari Lake\u2019s stance on abortion, following the Supreme Court&#8217;s Roe v. Wade reversal. The Arizona Democrat&#8217;s statewide ad alleges Lake aims to &#8220;ban abortion,&#8221; featuring various clips to support this claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2282776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24173797528129-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4310,9437,32485,16103,8211],"class_list":["post-2282775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-ad","tag-dobbs-anniversary","tag-gallego","tag-lake"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24173797528129-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282775","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\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}