Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Delaware offers endorsements

Deliberate Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Delaware just lately introduced it’s endorsing 44 candidates within the 2022 election.

Every of the 44 chosen people agrees substantively with Deliberate Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Delaware’s stance on reproductive rights. Candidates are required to fill out a PPAFDE questionnaire and show pro-reproductive well being views; particularly, they have to align with the group on not less than 90% of the inquiries to be eligible for an endorsement.

The record of candidates was accredited final week by PPAFDE’s govt board.

We’re excited to help this nice group of candidates. All of them have expressed help for sexual and reproductive healthcare, and most have confirmed that help with their voting information. It’s heartening to see so many individuals not simply help abortion entry however run on defending and increasing it at a time when 17 states have instituted restrictions on the sort of care. We urge voters who care about reproductive rights to again these people Nov. 8.

PPAFDE is supporting one candidate for every of the 4 statewide places of work up this 12 months, in addition to 40 legislative seats. The group is endorsing for re-election Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Lawyer Common Kathy Jennings and Treasurer Colleen Davis, in addition to Lydia York for auditor.

Within the state Senate, PPAFDE has endorsed 16 candidates, 12 of whom are incumbents. These embrace: SD 1: Sarah McBride; SD 3: Tizzy Lockman; SD 4: Laura Sturgeon; SD 5: Kyle Evans Homosexual; SD 6: Russ Huxtable; SD 7: Spiros Mantzavinos; SD 8: Dave Sokola; SD 9: Jack Walsh; SD 10: Stephanie Hansen; SD 11: Bryan Townsend; SD 12: Nicole Poore; SD 13: Marie Pinkney; SD 14: Kyra Hoffner; SD 17: Trey Paradee; SD 18: Billy Devary; and SD 21: Sonja Mehaffey.

The group is supporting 15 present representatives and 24 people in complete who’re in search of a seat within the state Home of Representatives. These embrace: RD 1: Nnamdi Chukwuocha; RD 3: Sherry Dorsey Walker; RD 4: Keegan Worley; RD 5: Kendra Johnson; RD 6: Deb Heffernan; RD 7: Larry Lambert; RD 8: Sherae’a “Rae” Moore; RD 9: Terrell Williams; RD 12: Krista Griffith; RD 13: DeShanna Neal; RD 14: Pete Schwartzkopf; RD 15: Valerie Longhurst; RD 17: Melissa Minor-Brown; RD 18: Sophie Phillips; RD 21: Frank Burns; RD 23: Paul Baumbach; RD 24: Ed Osienski; RD 25: Cyndie Romer; RD 26: Madinah Wilson-Anton; RD 27: Eric Morrison; RD 31: Sean Lynnl RD 32: Kerri Evelyn Harris; RD 39: Susan Clifford; and RD 41: Joseph DiPasquale.

Candidate responses to the questionnaire might be considered on-line at https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-advocacy-fund-delaware/elections/candidate-responses.

Deliberate Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Delaware is the advocacy and political arm of Deliberate Parenthood of Delaware, a separate entity.