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Hadley Duvall, a 21-year-old Midway University student from Owensboro, Ky., was featured in a viral ad about abortion and sexual abuse for Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s re-election campaign earlier this year. The ad is credited with contributing to Beshear’s win in November. Beshear’s campaign learned about Duvall after she shared her experience about being sexually abused by her stepfather on a Facebook post after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. In the ad, Duvall called out Daniel Cameron, the Republican candidate for Governor, for his support of Kentucky’s current abortion law.
“This is to you, Daniel Cameron,” she said. “To tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable. I’m speaking out because women and girls need to have options. Daniel Cameron would give us none.”
Duvall feels called to continue speaking out and fighting for other little girls abused in their bedrooms late at night. -
![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets ready in her apartment before heading to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets ready in her apartment before heading to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall puts on her jacket before leaving her apartment to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall puts on her jacket before leaving her apartment to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall puts on her makeup to get ready for the day in her apartment. Duvall’s room is filled with positive and inspirational artworks alongside photographs and mementos from her friends and family. She recently won the tit]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall puts on her makeup to get ready for the day in her apartment. Duvall’s room is filled with positive and inspirational artworks alongside photographs and mementos from her friends and family. She recently won the title of Homecoming Queen from Midway University – the sash hangs off her mirror. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall picks out her clothes for the day to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. . (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall picks out her clothes for the day to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. . (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall’s tattoo of the sexual assault survivor symbol alongside the Bible verse Philippians 4:13. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall’s tattoo of the sexual assault survivor symbol alongside the Bible verse Philippians 4:13. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets in her car to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets in her car to go to Midway University where she is a senior studying psychology. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall drives through the Central Kentucky landscape to get to Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
LEXINGTON, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall drives through the Central Kentucky landscape to get to Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Lillian Radzikinas (left), a barista “bean queen” for Black Type Co. take’s Hadley Duvall’s coffee order, a “sweater weather chai with oat milk.” (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Lillian Radzikinas (left), a barista “bean queen” for Black Type Co. take’s Hadley Duvall’s coffee order, a “sweater weather chai with oat milk.” (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall works on her presentation for Midway 101, a course for university freshman where Duvall, a senior, serves as a first-year mentor. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall works on her presentation for Midway 101, a course for university freshman where Duvall, a senior, serves as a first-year mentor. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall and Kyaria Cotton react after going over Duvall’s presentation for her presentation. Duvall said that Cotton was her first friend at Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall and Kyaria Cotton react after going over Duvall’s presentation for her presentation. Duvall said that Cotton was her first friend at Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall and Kyaria Cotton laugh after looking at Duvall’s phone. Duvall said that Cotton was her first friend at Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall and Kyaria Cotton laugh after looking at Duvall’s phone. Duvall said that Cotton was her first friend at Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall leaves Black Type Co., a local coffee shop in downtown Midway to go to Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall leaves Black Type Co., a local coffee shop in downtown Midway to go to Midway University. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall walks through Midway University campus to her Midway 101 class, a course for university freshman where Duvall, a senior, serves as a first-year mentor. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall walks through Midway University campus to her Midway 101 class, a course for university freshman where Duvall, a senior, serves as a first-year mentor. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets set up to give her presentation alongside her professor, Leah Hatch. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall gets set up to give her presentation alongside her professor, Leah Hatch. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
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![MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall on Midway University campus. Duvall, 21, began sharing her story about sexual abuse after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. This past year, she appeared in a campaign ad for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear]()
MIDWAY, KY - NOV., 15: Hadley Duvall on Midway University campus. Duvall, 21, began sharing her story about sexual abuse after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. This past year, she appeared in a campaign ad for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear speaking about her experience and the necessity for abortion rights to give sexual assault survivors a choice. (Photo by Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post)
