This article was co-published with The 19th as part of The 19th News Network’s Abortion on the Ballot series.
Political analysts have consistently said that whoever becomes the next president will need to win the state to do so, with Decision Desk HQ analysts projecting that Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral college votes is one of the only viable pathways to winning the election.
The next president to enter the Oval Office will help map the future of federal abortion policy. During his term, Donald Trump laid the groundwork for the fall of Roe v. Wade by appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court. The former president has distanced himself from the idea of a federal abortion ban, however, he recently told Fox News both that a ban was “off the table,” but “we’ll see what happens.”
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