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Statement

Pennsylvania Moms Say: Count Every Vote in Our U.S. Senate Race

November 8, 2024
Pennsylvania

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Karen Showalter, Senior Director, Pennsylvania at MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, including thousands in Pennsylvania, on the state’s U.S. race:

“Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race will help shape the Congress that is going to make immensely important decisions that have an enormous impact on our lives, including whether child care and home care will be affordable, paid family and medical leave accessible, wages fair, and our streets and communities safer from the scourge of gun violence. The outcome of this race will help determine whether moms who have miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other reproductive health emergencies will continue to suffer and die – and whether any of us will be able to access birth control, IVF and abortion care. It should go without saying that, in any election, every vote must be counted and that is especially important in the Casey/McCormick U.S. Senate race, which is extremely close with some 100,000 votes still to be counted. Our state’s moms say that nobody should declare victory until every single vote has been counted.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.