ICYMI: For Democrats, abortion pill case opens new front in election-year battle [The Washington Post]

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The Washington Post: For Democrats, abortion pill case opens new front in election-year battle
By Patrick Svitek 
March 28, 2024 

• The campaign arm for Senate Democrats is seeking to put Republican candidates on defense over access to mifepristone as the Supreme Court considers restricting the abortion medication.

• The court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could make it harder to obtain mifepristone, which is used in more than 60 percent of U.S. abortions. Democrats everywhere have been campaigning aggressively on reproductive rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 — and the battle over medication abortion represents a new front against the GOP.

• The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and state parties mobilized… to draw contrasts with Republicans over the issue. They highlighted, for example, how Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake said after the overturning of Roe that she would “very much support banning” abortion pills.

• The DSCC also went after its top two incumbent targets — GOP Sens. Rick Scott (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Tex.) — for signing an amicus brief in February that urged limited access to mifepristone. DSCC spokesman Tommy Garcia said in a statement that the brief was “another reminder of the threat a GOP controlled Senate would pose to abortion access in every part of the country.”

See also: IN THE STATES: Democrats Hold GOP Senate Candidates Accountable For Anti-Choice Records as SCOTUS Considers Restricting Medication Abortion Nationwide; DSCC Statement on NRSC Chair Daines, Sens. Cruz, Scott & GOP Senate Leaders’ Amicus Brief Supporting National Restriction on Medication Abortion; GOPonAbortion.com; DSCC Statement Ahead of SCOTUS Mifepristone Case Oral Arguments; Jezebel: ​​145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill.

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