Supreme Court's abortion draft upends Texas Democratic U.S. House race

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion has injected new urgency into a Texas primary that pits the House of Representatives' lone anti-abortion Democrat against an advocate of abortion rights.

Progressive Democratic challenger Jessica Cisneros on Wednesday called on top House Democrats to drop their support for Representative Henry Cuellar, an 18-year-incumbent, over his anti-abortion stance, ahead of a May 24 runoff primary.

The draft showed the court could be ready to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, and the leak sent Cuellar scrambling to square his position with his party.

"With the House majority on the line, he could very much be the deciding vote on the future of our reproductive rights and we cannot afford to take that risk," Cisneros, a 28-year-old immigration attorney, said in a press release on Wednesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-courts-abortion-draft-upends-texas-democratic-us-house-race/ar-AAWVu21

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good luck to her. I hope she prevails.

This is where the rubber meets the road.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Say Goodbye To That Seat

It's probably his abortion position that enabled him to win the votes of Texas voters.

I agree that he shouldn't win re-election, but it comes at a cost.

[localroger]

4. Same with Louisiana gove. John Bel Edwards

He signed the existing trigger law which will outlaw abortion the day the SCOTUS ruling comes down. But if he was a "better" Democrat, we'd have a far more awful Republican governor who is not as progressive on a dozen other issues. Politics is complicated.

[JohnSJ]

3. I remember Sanders support in Nebraska for anti-abortion candidate Heath Mello, and the same

arguments were voiced, only in reverse from the opposite supporters

It is a complex issue, do we support the issue, or who has the best chance of winning

It isn’t unlike the debates going on about Manchin and Sinema

Because the majorities are so narrow, does it come down to who has the best chance of winning?

Does it depend on the office, state verses federal?

Some people hold to the view that all politics is local. Is it that simple, because then it adheres to Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy, or does it? Are there some issues that are not debatable?

I don’t think it is an easy question, and being a Democrat is not easy because we have an open tent

I know nothing about his district, but winning or losing that district probably will come down to whether the majority in that district are pro-choice or anti-choice