Andrea Grimes is a journalist and activist living in Austin, Texas.
Americans haven’t forgotten that the ability to decide if and when to become a parent is one of the most essential, personal and life-changing decisions we’ll ever make. And we especially haven’t forgotten that the GOP is primarily responsible for wresting that decision away from many millions of us. Because we remember both of these things, the issue of abortion remains a common thread in upcoming elections around the country — much to the consternation of Republicans.
In Kentucky, the contest for governor between incumbent Democrat Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron has pitted Beshear’s support for reproductive rights against Cameron’s flip-flopping scramble to position himself as either very-anti-abortion or only-sort-of-very anti-abortion.