Think Big America has already funded support for constitutional amendments favoring abortion access in Ohio, Arizona and Nevada. Fourteen states now ban abortion and debate elsewhere rages since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2022 decision to upend the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade opinion that legalized abortion. "My commitment to protecting and expanding reproductive rights has been lifelong,” Pritzker, who has often recalled attending abortion-rights rallies with his mother as a child, said in a prepared statement. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesDespite a long progressive agenda, there are few issues on which Pritzker has been more vocal than abortion access. "I’ve seen the governor’s commitment to expanding human, civil, and reproductive rights up close,” Rogers said in a statement.

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