Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate is putting abortion rights at the center of her campaign
Stacey Abrams has temporarily paused fundraising for her campaign for governor of Georgia as she is now focused on supporting abortion rights groups in the state.
As reported by the Gerren Keith Gaynor, President Joe Biden released a statement Tuesday about the Supreme Court opinion draft leak affirming the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to defending Roe v. Wade.
“If the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November,” said President Biden.
In a campaign fundraising email, Abrams wrote, “We know that no one individual, campaign or organization can guarantee reproductive choice on their own. We can only win this fight by uniting and doing the work together.”
In an interview Tuesday with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she also explained why she’s putting abortion rights at the center of her campaign for governor in Georgia.
“This campaign will absolutely lean into and lead on that issue,” the Democrat said. “Because if I want to be the governor of one Georgia, that means I’ve got to govern for the women of Georgia. And the women of Georgia by and large agree that their right to choose should not be stripped away from them.”
Abrams has raised $11.7 million so far for her political campaign, per the Associated Press. She is running unopposed in the May 24 Democratic primary.
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