Title: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
Headings: On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
On Late-Term Abortion, 2020 Democrats Are to the Left Even of Obama in 2008
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Maybe Obama’s comments were insincere: In 2003, he suggested that the government should not restrict late-term abortion at all. But his 2008 remarks were at the very least a concession to political reality, an indication of what he thought a Democratic candidate had to say to get elected. With such a huge field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, might one of them echo Obama’s 2008 comments, out of either genuine conviction or political self-interest? Maybe Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman who said he was pro-life just a few years ago and worries that Democrats are out of touch with middle America? Nope. “ The government should not be involved at all,” Ryan said after the Miami debate. Maybe Andrew Yang, the technocrat who says voters want non-ideological leadership? “ I’m for women’s reproductive rights,” Yang told me after the debate when asked if he supported any limits on late-term abortion. Maybe John Hickenlooper, the moderate former Colorado governor who is warning Democrats they’ll lose if they lurch too far left? “