Robert P. Casey

…achieving his first success with Robert P. Casey’s victory in the 1986 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. Subsequent successes followed in the 1987 reelection bid of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the 1990 Georgia gubernatorial campaign of Zell Miller, and the 1991 landslide victory of Harris Wofford (who overcame a 40-point deficit…

…of Pennsylvania, led by Governor Robert Casey, enacted new abortion statutes that required that a woman seeking an abortion give her informed consent, that a minor seeking an abortion obtain parental consent (the provision included a judicial waiver option), that a married woman notify her husband of her intended abortion,…