Alabama Democrat Marilyn Lands Wins Special Election With IVF, Abortion Rights Campaign | #elections | #alabama
Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election in Alabama on Tuesday, scoring a state House seat in a long-held Republican district after running her campaign on IVF and abortion rights. Lands defeated Republican and Madison City Council member Teddy Powell in the state’s 10th district by a margin of approximately 25 percent, according to The […]
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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on abortion rights in deeply conservative Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature, in a victory that Democrats say illustrates voter backlash to extreme reproductive restrictions imposed by Republicans. Lands, a Democrat, on Tuesday decisively defeated Republican Teddy Powell to win the open House of Representatives seat in a […]
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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | #elections | #alabama
Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on abortion rights in deeply conservative Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature, in a victory that Democrats say illustrates voter backlash to extreme reproductive restrictions imposed by Republicans. Lands, a Democrat, on Tuesday decisively defeated Republican Teddy Powell to win the open House of Representatives seat in a […]
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Democrat wins Alabama swing seat by 25% amid controversy over abortion and IVF | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A Democratic candidate won a swing seat in the Alabama state house by a whopping 25% margin in a race dominated by the controversy over Republican efforts to ban abortion and in-vitro fertilization. Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on a strongly pro-choice platform, won a special election to fill the suburban Huntsville 10th District, turning around […]
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Democrat Flips Seat in Alabama House After Running on Abortion Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Marilyn Lands, a Democratic candidate for a state House seat in Alabama, won a special election on Tuesday, defeating Republican Teddy Powell. Lands focused her campaign on reproductive rights, including support for access to in vitro fertilization and abortion. The election was for a seat in Madison City, and it was previously held by a […]
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Democrat Wins Big in Alabama With Pro-Choice Message | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Marilyn Lands makes her case in a Huntsville-area district. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Last month’s shocking decision by the Alabama Supreme Court treating embryos created for IVF treatments as subject to wrongful-death laws accelerated an already powerful pro-choice backlash against Republican-backed anti-abortion extremism. That’s true even in Alabama itself, where […]
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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | Elections | #elections | #alabama
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Huntsville-area voters to choose state representative in rare competitive race • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Next Tuesday will feature something rare in Alabama: a competitive legislative election. The contest will take place in House District 10, covering south Huntsville, southern Madison County and parts of Madison. Madison City Councilman Teddy Powell, the Republican nominee, will face Democratic nominee Marilyn Lands, who ran in 2022. The seat opened after former Rep. […]
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Arkansas health care workers support national call to protect IVF • Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas doctors have joined a nationwide network of health care professionals working to protect in vitro fertilization access in the wake of last month’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling that paused IVF services in the state. Healthcare Workers for Reproductive Freedom formally launched its Save IVF campaign last week with the release of a letter signed […]
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Moms Are in Crisis. The GOP Wants to Keep Them There | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The battle for mom votes broke through in our national consciousness again last week with a dystopian State of the Union response by Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt. She centered herself in a kitchen that looked like a stage set, using her motherhood to peddle her fear-based vision of America. Rife with misinformation, Britt used […]
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