\n\t\tThe Senate races that could be impacted by end of Roe\t<\/a>
\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\nIn Pennsylvania, abortions are legal up to 24 weeks. At least six different anti-abortion bills have been introduced by Republican members of the general assembly and were vetoed by the state’s Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. His term ends in January, giving the battle over abortion rights a high profile heading into the November elections. <\/p>\n
Josh Shapiro, the Democratic candidate for governor, has voted to continue to veto abortion bans. However, his Republican opponent, State Sen. Doug Mastriano, has said he believes all abortions should be illegal, with no exceptions.<\/p>\n
In November, who becomes Pennsylvania’s next governor could determine whether abortion is legal in the state. This comes as the state legislature, long controlled by Republicans, could also be up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz has campaigned as being 100% anti-abortion, but he supports access to abortion in cases of rape, incest and when the mother\u2019s life is in danger. <\/p>\n
Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race could also be critical \u2014 the winner could determine which party would control the chamber and whether abortion is allowed or restricted at the federal level. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(NewsNation) \u2014 The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has left Democrats and Republicans split over how they’ll vote in the upcoming midterm elections. Thousands of women in Pennsylvania and across the country have registered to vote since the June 24 decision. Democrats have seen a surge in voter registrations in Pennsylvania among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/voting_081722_AP_Eric-Gay.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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