We All Lost the Abortion War -- It's Time to Start Over

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : As Republicans and anti-abortion forces have battered away at the infrastructure protecting the right to an abortion with a gargantuan war chest; charged, emotional arguments; and relentless fervor, Democrats have backed away from its defense, trying to put distance between themselves and the issue with stigmatizing rhetoric, dismissive framing, and strategic silence.
57% : Abortion has given untold millions the space to choose ourselves, to invest time and energy into our futures and dreams and families without the fear of coercion at the point of an ultrasound.
53% : "Abortion gave me the option to have the family I wanted."
46% : And rather than act like abortion happens to no one, nowhere, Democrats can emphasize that it is a choice made by real people, everywhere.
45% : We have earned a politics that uplifts the alternatives that abortion represents -- and the people, like me, who are the product of it.
43% : They can stop pretending that abortion lives apart from the issues that shape citizens' lives, and instead expand and explore the ways in which reproductive freedom supports a whole society.
42% : Democrats can abandon their backpedaling in the face of false assertions and emotional pleas, and instead challenge anti-choice operations with the actual consequences of state intervention in every pregnancy.
41% : Republicans continue to rally behind false assertions and emotional pleas, while Democrats continue to backtrack rather than challenge anti-choice operations with the consequences of state intervention in every pregnancy.
35% : For decades, those fighting for autonomy have had to gather under the banner of "safe, legal, and rare" or gently demur to personal denunciations of abortion from visible Democratic politicians, rather than counter the narratives of shame and reproach with vehement support.

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