This is kind of fascinating, actually.

"'Everybody’s daughter’: The rape victim behind Kentucky’s viral abortion ad

Hadley Duvall helped Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear win reelection -- and she’s ready to campaign again in 2024"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/04/kentucky-abortion-ad/

"Standing in the middle of a football field in mid-October, she looked out at the students of her small Christian university, stunned to be the one wearing the rhinestone tiara. Her classmates could have chosen to honor the student body president or a leading member of the local Bible study. Instead, they’d picked Hadley, the face of a viral ad about abortion and sexual abuse that had begun airing a month earlier, and would soon help Democrats hold the governor’s mansion in one of the most conservative states in the country.

'They don’t hate me,' Duvall, 21, recalled thinking as she accepted a bouquet of red roses from her college president. 'They made me homecoming queen.'”

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“'Go look at the ad ran against Daniel Cameron in Kentucky of the young woman who was raped when she was 12 years old by her father,' Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, said on a recent podcast. The ad clearly contributed to Beshear’s win, McDaniel said, 'because we won everything else down ticket in Kentucky.'

Heading into the 2024 presidential election, the resonance of Duvall’s ad offers a new playbook for Democrats, while positioning Duvall herself as a uniquely powerful messenger on abortion, capable of appealing to moderates and conservatives.

'Some people have a stereotype of someone who has to make this kind of choice,' said Duvall’s mother, Jennifer Adkins Miller. 'But Hadley is in everybody’s household. She’s everybody’s daughter. She’s everybody’s niece. She’s everybody’s sister.'

Duvall has thought critically about why she, in particular, has been such a persuasive voice on the issue. She expects conservatives wouldn’t have been nearly as open to listening to a Black or Hispanic woman with the same story.

'It’s a sad reality,' she said. 'White privilege … I believe that’s a thing, 100 percent.'

She said she’s been called 'the all-American girl.'”

~ Caroline Kitchener