New Biden campaign ad airing in Pennsylvania focuses on Black maternal mortality

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign on Friday launched a new ad focused on how state bans on abortion are affecting Black maternal health. Titled  “Access,” the spot airing in the Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte, Philly, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Milwaukee media markets highlights Shawana Moore, a women’s health nurse practitioner from Atlanta, who speaks about the “fear and uncertainty” among patients and health care providers in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. The ad is timed near the two-year anniversary of  an abortion ban in Georgia. It’s part of the Biden campaign’s $50 million paid media program for July. “I think there’s fear and uncertainty,” Moore says in the ad. “Within the United States, there’s a maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts women of color.” Screen capture from new Biden campaign ad. Black maternal mortality rates have become a focus of the Pennsylvania Legislature and Gov. Josh Shapiro in the past several years. In October, State Reps. La’Tasha D. Mayes (D-Allegheny), Gina Curry (D-Delaware), and Morgan Cephas (D-Philadelphia)  announced the creation of the Black Maternal Health Caucus in an effort to find legislative solutions to Pennsylvania’s high rates of Black maternal mortality and morbidity.  A 2022 report...