Title: “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare”: a history of the idea - Vox
Headings: How the abortion debate moved away from “safe, legal, and rare”
How the abortion debate moved away from “safe, legal, and rare”
Democratic politicians have been moving away from “safe, legal, and rare” since 2012
Despite the shift, divisions on abortion remain among Democrats
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Content: For that reason, the All* Above All Action Fund says that abortion should be “safe, legal, accessible, and affordable,” not rare, Lopez said. Democratic candidates have been listening to concerns like these, and in recent years, they’ve moved away from “safe, legal, and rare.” The word “rare” was removed from the Democratic party platform in 2012, Bracey Sherman said, and in 2016, Clinton no longer used it on the campaign trail. A discussion of abortion in her 2017 book What Happened showed how much the former candidate’s language had changed on the issue. “ We can debate the morality of abortion forever,” Clinton wrote, “but at the end of the day, who decides whether a woman gets or stays pregnant?” Her answer: “ I say let women decide.” Clinton’s shift was part of a bigger move in the Democratic Party toward more outspoken and less equivocal support of abortion rights. In particular, advocates had been calling for a repeal of Hyde for years because the amendment, first passed in 1976, blocks Medicaid coverage for almost all abortions. As a result, many low-income Americans are blocked from getting the procedure or forced to go into debt or forego necessities to pay for it.