Republican Senate candidate says she’s anti-abortion but against federal ban

Tiffany Smiley, a trained nurse, wants to win in Washington state, where a 1991 law protects abortion access

A Republican Senate nominee in Washington state said on Sunday she was against abortion - but supported a state law that guarantees the right to abortion until fetal viability.

Speaking to CNN's State of the Union, Tiffany Smiley said she supported the law despite the US supreme court decision earlier this summer, in Dobbs v Jackson, which overturned the right to abortion, a right previously guaranteed for almost 50 years.