The invitation list for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday speaks volumes about what Democrats and Republicans want to focus on as the 2024 election season heats up.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 ruling stripping away constitutional protections for abortion, Biden and Democratic lawmakers invited several health care providers and women whose lives have been affected by stricter abortion laws in states with Republican-controlled legislatures Impact. First lady Jill Biden also invited union leaders, gun control advocates and others she and her husband have met as they travel the country promoting his agenda.

Republican lawmakers are inviting guests focused on the nation’s broken immigration system, an issue voters say is a central issue ahead of November’s election.

Among the guests invited to sit in the gallery to watch Biden speak were at least some of the people nearly everyone in partisan Washington should be cheering for.

Take a look at some of the people expected to attend Biden’s speech and the issues they care about:

reproductive health

— Kate Cox is a Texas woman whose request for an emergency abortion was denied late last year by the state’s Supreme Court, even though her health was at risk and her fetus was endangered life. The mother of two ended up having to travel out of state for the surgery. She was Jill Biden’s guest.

–PhD. Caitlin Bernard is an Indianapolis ob-gyn who came under attack in 2022 for providing abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim. She will be the guest of California Rep. Judy Chu.

— Elizabeth Carr, 42, was the first person born through in vitro fertilization in the United States. She will be a guest of Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who represents Virginia. He said he invited Carr to focus on concerns after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos could be considered children, causing the state’s three major IVF providers to suspend services.

—Roshni Kamta, a native of Jersey City, New Jersey, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 22 and decided to freeze her eggs before treatment. The experience inspired her to advocate for wider access to fertility treatments for breast cancer patients. She was a guest of Democratic Senator Cory Booker, who represents New Jersey.

—Tammi Kromenake has spent nearly 25 years in Fargo, North Dakota, helping run the Red River Women’s Clinic, the state’s only abortion provider. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, North Dakota enacted some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Kromenak moved the practice to neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota. She was a guest of Democratic Senator Tina Smith, who represents Minnesota.

migrant

— Tammy Nobles is the mother of Kayla Hamilton, a young woman who was killed in 2022. The suspects are MS-13 gang members who entered the United States illegally. Nobles was invited by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who represents Louisiana.

—Border Patrol agent Brandon Budlong, chairman of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2724, will become chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.J., representing New Jersey ) guests.

— Ben Kurian and Zunxu Tian, ​​two New York Police Department officers who were attacked by immigrants in an incident near Times Square in January that drew national attention, will become state Republicans. Guests were Assemblymembers Anthony D’Esposito and Nicole Malliotakis, along with Johnson.

— Valeria Delgado, a student at Chapman University in California who benefited from policies created to protect young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, will become a Democratic representative for California in Rep. Lou Lou Correa’s guest.

Russia, Israel and NATO

— Sweden is about to complete the formal process of joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will be seated in the first lady’s box. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Sweden joined NATO together with Finland.

— Ella Millman and Mikhail Gershkovich, the parents of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, will attend as guests of Johnson. The Louisiana Republican said he invited their attention to the “unjust” detention of his son, who has been imprisoned in Russia since last March on espionage charges. Gershkovich and the U.S. government dispute the charges against him.

— Lawmakers also hosted victims and relatives of victims killed or held hostage by Hamas in the Oct. 7 Israeli attack. Mia Schem, who was abducted by Hamas and released as part of a temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel after more than 50 days in captivity, is expected to attend.

labor

UAW President Sean Fein will appear in the first lady’s box. Other union representatives who have joined her include United Brotherhood of Carpenters apprentice Samantha Ervin-Upsher and third-generation union autoworker Dawn Simms. The UAW announced its support for Biden in January.

Voting rights, gun control and more

— Gun control advocate Jazmin Cazares traveled across the country as a high school senior to tell the story of her older sister, Jackie, who died in May 2022 He was one of 19 students and two teachers shot to death in the shooting at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas. She was a guest of the First Lady.

—Dwayne Chapman has advocated for years for cleaning up nuclear fallout around St. Louis. She will be the guest of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who represents Missouri and has pressed the federal government to compensate victims of radioactive waste in the St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, areas.

—Minnesota Rep. Cedrick Frazier, the author of legislation that would reinstate prison sentences for more than 55,000 Minnesotans who have completed felony convictions but remain on parole, probation or supervised release Voting rights. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents Minnesota, invited Frazier to shine a spotlight on voting rights efforts in her home state, while she also pressed for similar legislation at the federal level.