Planned Parenthood to blitz GOP seats, but will abortion sway California's conservative voters?

Planned Parenthood is preparing a seven-figure campaign blitz to oust GOP incumbents from California congressional seats, part of a larger national effort by the reproductive rights group to prevent a Republican majority from passing abortion restrictions, including a national ban.

Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California is targeting eight districts where voters largely backed Republicans in 2022 even as they endorsed a constitutional amendment enshrining access to abortion and contraceptives. The advertising plan goes negative by focusing on each incumbent's record of voting against access to abortion and contraceptives. In the past, the group riffed on the "Burn Book" from the 2004 comedy "Mean Girls."

GOP party officials said they were confident voters in those districts would look at the bigger picture and return Republicans to office. And one incumbent dismissed the notion that there's a threat to reproductive care in the Golden State.