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Alabama

What Marilyn Lands’ special election win means for Alabama, and Republican politics | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Marilyn Lands’ victory in an Alabama statehouse race in North Alabama on Tuesday followed a similar script for Alabama Democrats on the rare occasions they topple a Republican within the ruby red state. That includes winning a special election, receiving a boost from national media exposure, and generating support from Republicans. It happened for Doug […]

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Alabama

Democrat Lands’ House victory significant, but also will be hard to replicate | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY — In what marked the first net gain for Democrats in the Alabama Legislature in more than 20 years, Marilyn Lands, running on reproductive rights, secured a decisive victory this week during the special election to represent House District 10 in north Alabama. Winning by nearly 25 percentage points and flipping the district blue, […]

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Alabama

Alabama Republican urges fertility clinics to reopen; UAB says it’s not so simple | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama’s Republican lawmakers are considering legislation to protect in vitro fertilization and their vision of the right to life following the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that frozen embryos are people. While legislation proceeds, some conservatives said over the weekend, Alabama fertility clinics that shut down last week should reopen. “These clinics should start providing […]

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