![]() McCaffery, who sits on the statewide appellate Superior Court, has been blunt about his positions and warned that electing Carluccio and other Republican judges will undo the gains that Democrats have fought for, including voting, labor and abortion rights. On Tuesday, her campaign began airing a TV ad in Philadelphia in which she says, “The truth? I will uphold the law, including women’s reproductive rights.” Wade standard of 24 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. In Pennsylvania, the law allows an abortion up to the Roe v. ![]() Wade and end nearly a half-century of federal abortion protections left the question to states. Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. “It has fascinated me that my opponents have made this entire race about abortion and the reality is, it has nothing to do with this race,” Carluccio told a conservative radio host last week. Publicly, she has avoided saying whether she supports or opposes abortion rights, and instead said she will uphold a state law that makes the procedure legal. One has said it did so after she represented herself as “pro-life.” Carluccio, in turn, is the target of TV ads by Planned Parenthood’s national political arm and a pro-McCaffery group called Pennsylvanians for Judicial Fairness that say she is a threat to abortion rights in Pennsylvania.Ĭarluccio, a Montgomery County judge, is endorsed by a pair of anti-abortion groups, the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania.
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