Women in Philly's suburbs are key to determining the 2024 election. And Democrats have an advantage.

Doris Brown has lived in Quakertown for decades and watched it turn from a quiet rural area to part of Philadelphia’s sprawling suburbs.

In the late 1960s, before Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, Brown had an extremely difficult pregnancy. Ultimately, Brown said, the child died and she had a procedure similar to that of a surgical abortion to remove the fetus.

“Luckily, in those days I could have the abortion I needed; now that’s changing. Not in Pennsylvania, but it’s only a matter of time,” the 89-year-old told Vera Cole, a Pennsylvania House candidate who stopped by her home this month in one of the more conservative parts of battleground Bucks County. Abortion was illegal in Pennsylvania before Roe v. Wade, but there were loopholes. The abortion ban wouldn’t have affected Brown because the fetus had already died.

Cole, a Democrat, had identified her top issues as free and fair elections and protection of reproductive rights.




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