{"id":1577400,"date":"2024-03-27T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=bb5f8da8e9493556aea73f27e282ebe3"},"modified":"2024-03-27T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T19:12:06","slug":"marilyn-lands-wins-alabama-special-election-using-abortion-rights-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/27\/marilyn-lands-wins-alabama-special-election-using-abortion-rights-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Lands Wins Alabama Special Election Using Abortion Rights Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic candidate flipped control of an Alabama state House of Representatives seat on Tuesday, running on a platform of supporting reproductive and abortion rights in a district that has long been held by Republicans. Democrat Marilyn Lands defeated Republican Teddy Powell in the race, receiving 62 percent of the vote to his 38 percent in the Huntsville-area matchup. The shift in voters&rsquo;...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/dem-marilyn-lands-wins-alabama-special-election-using-abortion-rights-message\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/dem-marilyn-lands-wins-alabama-special-election-using-abortion-rights-message\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur legislature must repeal Alabama\u2019s no-exceptions abortion ban,\u201d Lands, a Democrat, said in her victory speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[913,6991,74746,74749,4776,77109,4,1272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577401,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577400\/revisions\/1577401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}