Louisiana Gov. Edwards opposes abortion rights and signed a bill with major restrictions. The 2020 contenders had a lot to say about that.
The law Edwards signed last week would outlaw abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected — as early as six weeks, before many women even know they're pregnant — and it includes no exceptions for rape or incest.
The party now finds itself in the uncomfortable position of running candidates in two of this year's three gubernatorial races who have played an active role in advancing the bills that swept through Southern statehouses this year to crack down on abortion. The number of abortion rights opponents inside the Democratic Party has dwindled in recent years and those who remain say they feel like they're being expelled from a party they support on almost every other issue."we should be 100 percent pro-choice, and it should be non-negotiable.""I don't think we need to drum anybody out of the party," said James Carville, the famed Louisiana Democratic strategist.
Landrieu lost the state in 2014, Edwards won it 2015, before President Donald Trump, campaigning against abortion rights, won it in 2016 with more votes than any candidate in history.that featured his wife explaining how they rejected doctors' advice to terminate her pregnancy after it was discovered that their daughter had spina bifida.But critics say Edwards and his wife were given an option that he's now denying to others.
But Edwards was hardly the only Democrat in the state to support the measure, which passed by veto-proofIts sponsor was a Democratic state senator, John Milkovich, who told NBC News it was part of"an ethical insurgency against the abortion industry."
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