In Ohio, doctors have worked to pass a ballot measure that enshrined reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. In Texas, they’ve battled in court over a narrow exception to the state’s abortion ban.

At least six Democratic doctors are running for competitive House seats this year, seizing on voters’ concerns about reproductive health and high health care costs.

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    25 days ago

    Excellent. We need more people with scientific backgrounds in government.

    That said, we’ve had some spectacularly bad Republican medical practitioners in offices, so I would prefer more chemists, physicists and the like.

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      25 days ago

      Molecular biologists. I want to eat sweet chili pepper and hot tomato. Right now they are banned.