Democrat gubernatorial nominee Jennifer McCormick intends for her candidacy against Republican nominee Mike Braun and Libertarian Donald Rainwater to be an appeal for abortion rights between now and November. "That’s exactly right," McCormick told me on Tuesday, three hours before the polls closed and Sen. Braun won the GOP nomination.
"A vote for me is a vote for that purpose. There’s a clear difference. I’m going to fight to restore those rights under any authority I can, working in a bipartisan fashion, using our committees, board and our agencies.
I also know, too, what everybody’s fear is, that (Republicans are) not going to restore those rights and will take them further." The first post-Dobbs Supreme Court decision election was in November 2022. Indiana Right to Life CEO Mike Fichter observed that not a single Republican legislator who voted for those abortion restrictions lost.
When Ball State's Hoosier Poll in January asked about abortion access, 31.3% of respondents answered “legal in most cases” and 27.8% answered “legal in all cases” (or close to 60% want some access) while 27.
2% answered “illegal in most cases,” and 10.3% responded with “illegal in all cases.” "A lot of it was timing," said McCormick of the 2022 election.
"People hadn’t been informed as much as they should have been. They hadn’t felt the impact; they hadn’t watched the actions since then. It was pretty early.
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