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Nine states along with the District of Columbia on Tuesday held main elections, and many of the races involved women’s well being problems. Outcomes from these races appear below.
Arizona: Len Munsil, former president with the conservative Center for Arizona Policy who has lobbied the state Legislature to pass restrictions on abortion rights, won the Republican gubernatorial main more than Don Goldwater, Mike Harris and Gary Tupper, the AP/Mohave Valley News reports (Davenport, AP/Mohave Valley News, 9/12). Munsil has stated he would have signed 4 measures that incumbent Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) vetoed in April: HB 2254, which would have required physicians to inform girls searching for abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation that the fetus can really feel discomfort even if the women take pain medication through the procedure; SB 1325, which would have prohibited state and local governments from employing public funds to cover abortion expenses for low-income women; HB 2666, which would have amended the state’s existing parental consent law to need that consent forms be notarized; and HB 2142, which would have prohibited girls from selling their eggs (Kaiser Daily Women’s Well being Policy Report, 4/20).
Maryland: Lt. Gov. Michael Steele won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, the Baltimore Sun reports (Brown/Skalka, Baltimore Sun, 9/13). Steele in February throughout a Baltimore Jewish Council board meeting described stem cell study as “the destruction of human life” and compared it to Nazi experimentation on Jewish folks during the Holocaust. Steele later in February in a radio interview on WBAL said, “I humbly apologize to every person, definitely in that room and anybody who’s now following this, since that is not where my heart or exactly where my head is.” Steele also said he supports embryonic stem cell study with “some moral compass to guide” it and that he supports research conducted at NIH that allows scientists to extract cells “without destroying the embryo” (Kaiser Everyday Women’s Wellness Policy Report, 2/13). Steele will face U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who won the Democratic primary for the Senate seat (Baltimore Sun, 9/13).
New York State: John Spencer, who opposes abortion rights, won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate more than Kathleen Troia McFarland, who has stated she supports abortion rights, the AP/Albany Times Union reports (Fouhy, AP/Albany Times Union, 9/12). Spencer has criticized a bill introduced in April by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) that would need the Federal Trade Commission to adopt policies barring well being providers from advertising “with the intent to deceptively produce the impression that such individual is actually a provider of abortion services if such individual does not offer abortion services.” The legislation defines “abortion services” as making use of drugs or surgery to end a pregnancy or supplying referrals for such services. Spencer in April said incumbent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) should “chastise her Democratic liberal colleagues for attacking the function of adoption centers” (Kaiser Day-to-day Women’s Well being Policy Report, 4/4). Rodham Clinton on Tuesday won the Democratic primary (AP/Albany Times Union, 9/12). Rodham Clinton on her Internet site says she supports abortion rights as defined by Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans — and believes that abortion needs to be “safe, legal and rare” (Kaiser Day-to-day Women’s Wellness Policy Report, 3/9).
New York: State Lawyer Common Eliot Spitzer, who supports abortion rights, won the Democratic gubernatorial main more than Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, the New York Times reports (Healy, New York Times, 9/13). Spitzer in a February speech expressed his support for “the correct of a woman and her physician to consider all necessary and proper alternatives, which includes, as a last resort, late-term abortion when her life or health is at risk.” Suozzi has stated that he supports a ban with no exceptions on so-called “partial-birth” abortion and that he believes you’ll find late-term procedures “not as unnecessarily violent as partial-birth” procedures. Suozzi in Might 2005 proposed a three-year, $3 million program to lessen the number of abortions in Nassau County, saying he hopes the proposal can “bring together opposing sides” to produce a “world with fewer abortions” (Kaiser Every day Women’s Well being Policy Report, 2/10). Spitzer within the common election will face lawyer John Faso (R), who in 1987 stated that the Roe decision can be a “black mark upon this country” and has stated he opposes abortion rights except in circumstances of incest or rape or when the woman’s life is at risk. He also has stated that if he had been elected, he would limit coverage of abortions for Medicaid beneficiaries to those instances (Kaiser Daily Women’s Well being Policy Report, 6/8).
Rhode Island: Incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who supports abortion rights, won the Republican main more than Cranston, R.I., Mayor Stephen Laffey, who opposes abortion rights, the AP/Boston Globe reports (Johnson, AP/Boston Globe, 9/13). Frequent Sense 2006, an Ohio-based group “targeting candidates who support abortion rights,” earlier this month launched a so-called “push poll” criticizing Chaffee’s stance on abortion rights in an try to weaken his support, according to numerous voters inside the state. Several voters received automated phone calls asking which candidate they would vote for within the main. People that stated they would vote for Chafee “heard graphic descriptions of an abortion procedure opponents call ‘partial-birth abortion,’” which the poll said Chafee supports. Laffey spokesperson Nachama Soloveichik has stated the campaign was not involved within the poll (Kaiser Every day Women’s Health Policy Report, 9/11). Chaffee will face state Attorney Common Sheldon Whitehouse (D) in the general election (AP/Boston Globe, 9/13).
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