Since the constitutional right to abortion was taken away in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022, Democratic spending on abortion-related ads has jumped.
Line chart showing the percentage of television ad spending devoted to abortion from 2018 to 2024.
Democratic spending jumped up to around one-third in 2022 after the Dobbs ruling and has stayed high.
In the first four months of this year alone, 48 percent of Democratic ad spending on broadcast networks in Pennsylvania centered on abortion.
Democrats are seizing the moment, devoting two-thirds of their ad spending to abortion there.
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