ATLANTA — On the day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, I, like a lot of political watchers, assumed that the issue of abortion would change the electoral fortunes of Democrats in Georgia.
Abortion rights had been protected by law for nearly 50 years, the majority or entirety of many women’s lifetimes. A fundamental change in the abortion laws would create a fundamental change in politics, too, wouldn’t it?
Stacey Abrams’ campaign thought so. Over the summer, their data showed the issue could be more powerful for them in 2022 than anything they’d seen in Abrams’ race against Kemp four years ago.
