In the battleground US state of Pennsylvania, Democrats hope that defending abortion rights will mobilise their electorate, especially women, and allow them to win votes in the November 8 midterm elections.
Although she expected it, Ellen Pierson remembers her shock when the US Supreme Court in June overturned the half-century Roe v. Wade ruling that enshrined national abortion rights. "People, including me, didn't think that right could disappear,” she said.
