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Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn, and Penry Gustafson lost to three Republican men, all of whom identify as staunchly anti-abortion. One of them even unironically accused Shealy of"deranged, unhinged misandry."
On Tuesday, voters across South Carolina participated in the second round of the state’s primary elections. And by the end of the night, three Republican state senators, who joined an Independent and two Democratic senators to try Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn, and Penry Gustafson were dubbed “sister senators” with three of their colleagues in 2023 when they coalesced to filibuster a total abortion ban. They received fawning media coverage for ostensibly bucking their party and were even awarded the 2023 John F. Kennedy Library Foundationat the time, it wasn’t so simple: Gustafson and Shealy previously voted for the abortion ban.
Some will characterize these outcomes as a rebuke to abortion rights, which have been a highly salient issue at the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturnedin 2022. Even in ostensibly deep red states, like, say, Kentucky, reproductive rights have won as ballot measures and Democratic candidates like Kentucky’s Gov. Andyto their abortion rights credentials and highlighting their opponents’ extremism.
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