Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking/trending news blogger for MSNBC Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.
Larry Hogan, the former Maryland governor and current Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, made a drastic — though not entirely unsurprising — turn on abortion rights this week, saying he supports a woman’s right to choose and backs codifying Roe v. Wade. “I support restoring Roe as the law of the land,” Hogan told The New York Times days after his Tuesday GOP primary win. He added that if elected to the Senate, he would support a “bipartisan compromise to restore Roe.
In 2022, he vetoed a law to expand abortion access, and when lawmakers overrode his veto, he withheld millions of dollars allocated to train new providers. He also said at the time that the GOP’s focus on abortion was not “smart politics.” His middling stance reflected his position as a moderate Republican governor of a blue state. But since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion has proven a losing issue for Republicans at the ballot box.
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