Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks on Wednesday criticized her opponent, Republican former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, for his stance on abortion.
Alsobrooks was speaking at the abortion rights rally when she criticized Hogan for saying abortion should be legal up to 26 weeks into a pregnancy, the standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. That ruling was overturned in 2022, and states can now pass their own laws regulating abortion. That has galvanized Democrats across the country, who are calling for protecting access to abortion as Republicans try to restrict or ban it.
“I don’t think these decisions should be left to politicians,” Alsobrooks told reporters on Wednesday. “The decision about reproductive choice, about the freedom to have an abortion, is that woman’s own. And for her, it’s a family decision — the woman, her family and her doctor. I think Larry Hogan, the politician, should get out of the exam room.”
Asked whether there should be any restrictions on access to abortion, Alsobrooks said, “No.”
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks speaks at a pro-abortion press conference outside the American Visionary Art Museum. (Kenneth K. Lamb/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“I believe the decision lies with the woman and her doctor,” she said, pointing to situations where a pregnant woman’s life could be at risk without medical intervention.
Hogan, a moderate who served two terms as Republican governor in strongly Democratic Maryland, recently called himself a “pro-life” voice and said the issue should not be decided by “extreme factions” on both sides of the aisle.
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Supporters of Angela Alsobrooks hold up election posters outside a polling place at Thomas Johnson Elementary and Middle School, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Baltimore. (Wesley LaPointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In a 30-second campaign ad released this week, Hogan agreed with Democrats that “no one should come between a woman and her doctor.”
“Many are asking what I would do in the United States Senate today, now that Roe has been overturned. I will support legislation to make Roe the law of every state so that every woman can make her own choice,” he said in the ad.
The Republican candidate made his position clear in a radio interview on Wednesday, saying he supports a compromise bill introduced by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Joe Manchin (D-Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) that would codify Roe into federal law.
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Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting on Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/John Locker, File)
“Democrats want to take it even further,” Hogan told WBAL.
Hogan pointed to his own record as governor, saying, “I have done nothing to take away Maryland women’s access to abortion.”
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“I don’t think this will decide the outcome of the election. My record is very clear,” he added.
According to the latest Fox News poll, the issue of abortion is Self-described Democrat (24%), suburban women (24%), self-described liberals (23%), black voters (17%), college graduates (17%), and voters under 30 (16%).
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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