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PAF in NBC News: Democratic group targets Ohio and Pennsylvania with provocative abortion rights ad

Progress Action Fund, a Democratic group known for its provocative videos, will target Ohio and Pennsylvania with a 30-second ad depicting a Republican member of Congress inside a hospital room denying an abortion for a 12-year-old rape victim. The spot is titled “Republicans Watching Your Daughter” and is part of a planned six-figure advertising push targeting Ohio …

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PAF in The New Yorker: How Ohio Voters Defeated an Effort to Thwart Abortion Rights

Republicans in the Ohio legislature are accustomed to acting with impunity. Thanks to a carefully crafted, veto-proof majority in both chambers that might make Elbridge Gerry blush, they worry little about the popular will in a state that is more evenly divided than the legislature’s agenda would suggest. “We can kind of do what we want,” Matt Huffman, the State Senate …

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PAF in Yahoo News: Abortion advocates notch another win in special election

Supporters of expanding access to abortion in Ohio won a major victory Tuesday night, defeating a ballot measure that would have made it more difficult to amend the state’s constitution. The Associated Press called the special election with an estimated 37% of the votes in, declaring that voters in the Buckeye State rejected Ohio Issue …

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PAF in Ohio Capital Journal: LaRose says “no reasonable person” is talking about banning contraceptives. But his allies are

As they push to make it a lot harder for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution, Frank LaRose and Mike Gonidakis say that no “reasonable person” is considering a ban on contraceptives. That’s false — unless they believe U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a Republican member of the Ohio legislature aren’t reasonable people. …

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