Where do These 36 Pennsylvania State and Federal Candidates Stand on the Potential to Overturn Roe? Nine of Them Have Told Us in our Q&A Series

As part of our current Political Q&A serie s with candidates running in the May 2022 Primary, we require participants to identify as pro-choice along with meeting other criteria. For me choice/body autonomy/reproductive justice are deeply embedded in LGBTQ equality and rights. That is also true in terms of the Supreme Court rationale used in cases that have made significant changes in our community — striking down sodomy laws, marriage equality, expanding the scope of federal authority to protect people based on gender identity, etc.

So I ask this question in the current round:

The threats of ‘religious liberty’ laws and exemptions target both LGBTQ rights and women’s rights. Pennsylvania has no law protecting marriage equality, second-parent adoption, nondiscrimination, or similar important rights. If SCOTUS overturns or waters down Roe v Wade and the ‘penumbra of privacy’ protecting us, what do you anticipate happening in Pennsylvania?

Last night, POLITICO broke the news of a draft memo in the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe, with allusions to Lawrence and Obgerfell. Whatever happens with the SCOTUS decision will have lifelong implications for…