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Democrats, Republicans release dueling abortion ads in high-stakes Virginia elections

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Democrats and Republicans release dueling ads discussing abortion ahead of high-stakes Virginia elections. Democrats and Republicans in the state are ramping up their attacks ahead of high stakes state-wide elections in Virginia, releasing dueling ads about abortion -- a hot-button issues at the center of nearly every race in both the GOP-led state House and the Democratic-controlled state Senate. Last week, Virginia Republicans ran an ad titled "No Limits" accusing Democrats of fighting to make late-term abortion s "the rule and not the exception," while Democrats release d a number of ads across the state this week warning Republicans would ban abortion if they take full control of the General Assembly. Virginia is currently the southernmost state that hasn't banned or restricted abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Political science experts told ABC News that while Republicans in the state refrained from campaigning on the issue of aborti...

DeSantis calls out Trump's abortion comment as 'mistake': 'He's a different candidate' than in 2016

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DeSantis criticized Trump for calling Florida's six-week abortion ban "terrible," with DeSantis accusing his 2024 rival of being "a different candidate" than 2016 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, before unveiling his new energy plan in Midland, Texas, criticized Donald Trump for calling Florida's six-week abortion ban "terrible," with DeSantis in a new interview accusing his 2024 Republican rival of being "a different candidate today than he was" in 2016. "He claimed to be pro-life. He spoke at the March for Life and was waxing eloquently about how everybody counts," DeSantis told ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis in Texas, in a sit-down set to air Wednesday at 7 p.m EDT. "For him to then attack people like Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, all these other states, I thought that was a big mistake ," DeSantis said. Trump, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, went after DeSantis for signing...

Planned Parenthood set on fire just 2 days after state passes abortion rights law

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Police are hunting for a person involved in an arson attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois just two days after enacting major abortion protections into law. Police are hunting for a person involved in a suspected arson attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in central Illinois just two days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections into law. The incident occurred at approximately 11:31 p.m. on Sunday night when police in Peoria, Illinois, responded to the 2700 block of N. Knoxville to reports of a structure fire at a commercial building due to an "unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail" into it, police spokesperson Semone Roth told ABC News’ Chicago station WLS. MORE: Mom dies trying to rescue 6-year-old daughter as family home burned down “Within minutes, the Peoria Fire Department responded to the scene and extinguished the fire that was contained to one room,” said the Peoria Police Department. The building, which houses the Peoria Planned Parent...