Last Tuesday’s major victory for abortion rights in Kansas proved that the naysayers and pundits were wrong. We cannot and should not be afraid to talk about the stakes for abortion rights in November.
Cheri Beasley will cast the decisive 51st vote to protect abortion rights in the Senate and roll back the slew of outright bans we’ve seen from state legislatures across the nation.
Meanwhile, our opponent cannot hide his extreme, out-of-touch position calling for a complete ban nationwide without exceptions. But it’s our job to make sure every voter knows exactly where Ted Budd stands.
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Earlier this week, abortion rights were on the ballot in Kansas, and the answer from voters was resoundingly in favor of the right to abortion. Nearly 60 percent of voters in Kansas voted in favor of keeping their state constitution’s protections for abortion.
For years, pundits in Washington told us abortion rights were not a winning issue at the ballot box. It’s a big reason why reproductive freedom was never a priority in Congress, and now today, abortion has been completely or nearly banned in dozens of states.
Republicans like our opponent Ted Budd got exactly what they wanted when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and next they want to pass a national abortion ban without exceptions.
The contrast could not be clearer: Elect Cheri Beasley and secure the decisive 51st vote to protect abortion rights once and for all, or elect Ted Budd and give Republicans another vote for a national abortion ban in the Senate.
It’s up to us to make sure we have the resources to make the stakes in November clear to voters. If we do that, we win and expand our majority. But we need your help:
The pundits who spent years questioning whether abortion rights were a winning issue electorally are the same ones who are trying to say that Democrats have no chance this fall. They say history is against us, and there’s nothing we can do.
That’s utter nonsense, and we know it. The Republicans’ agenda is more extreme than ever, and their politicized Supreme Court is threatening so many of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
We absolutely can win. So let’s go prove them wrong and defy history with Cheri Beasley.
- Team Beasley
