For subscribers: Column: Democratic, Republican strategies emerge on abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% :Republicans may be back on their heels, but anti-abortion sentiment and organizations have proved potent for a long time in GOP strongholds and some election battlegrounds.
42% : As abortion becomes a major focus of the fall campaigns, Democrats and Republicans are honing their strategies to paint the opposition as extremists on the issue.
40% : The June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the Roe v. Wade constitutional right to abortion sent shock waves across the country.
40% : In Kansas, GOP gubernatorial nominee Derek Schmidt said during a debate that he respects the Aug. 2 voter rejection of the state constitutional amendment that would have given the GOP-controlled Legislature legal footing to further restrict or ban abortion, according to The Associated Press.
40% : The three-term state attorney general then contended Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly favors abortion with no restrictions "up to the moment of birth" and public funding for elective abortions.
37% : The measure does not have language regulating abortion but allows the state "to prohibit abortion after fetal viability unless needed to protect a patient's life or physical or mental health."
33% : In July, she said abortion would not be justified in a hypothetical case where a 14-year-old girl became pregnant as a result of being raped by an uncle.
30% :Asked about Schmidt's characterization of her position on abortion, Kelly said, "He's making that up.
24% : Michigan Republican Tudor Dixon has been trying to soften her hard-line stance against abortion in her campaign against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to The New York Times.

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