After an IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through Alabama, Democrat Marilyn Lands won the special election for a state House seat running heavily on reproductive rights.
Washington — Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for an Alabama state House seat late Tuesday, flipping a Republican-held seat in the deep-red state in the aftermath of a court ruling in the state that threw access to fertility treatments into question.Lands, a mental health counselor, made reproductive rights central to her campaign. She's spoken openly about her own abortion when her pregnancy was nonviable.
But former President Donald Trump won the district by a slim margin in 2020, making it a toss-up district that Democrats had set their sights on. Lands also ran for the seat in 2022, but narrowly lost to her Republican opponent. Heather Williams, president of Democrats' legislative campaign arm, called the special election 'the first real test' of how voters would respond to the IVF ruling in Alabama and reproductive rights more broadly, and 'a harbinger of things to come.
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