I went to a house party for Coleen Rowley last week. She is the FBI whistleblower who is running for Congress in the 2nd district in Minnesota. A woman there asked her to state her position on abortion.
Coleen answered that she was pro-life. Then she went on to say that she favored sex ed in schools to help prevent unwanted pregnancies, access to contraceptives and that she was against criminalizing abortion.
It took me a day or so to realize what a tremendous opportunity this is for all Democrats.
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What Coleen did was co-opt the term "pro-life" and reframe it. Her position is one ALL pro-choice people can agree with. She says she's against abortion and aren't we all? Not one of us, no matter how staunchly we defend a woman's right to choose WANTS any woman to have an abortion. But the Pro-life Movement has framed us that way.
And we lost elections because of it. Most people do not want to see Roe overturned, but they want to be "pro-life,' because who doesn't want to be for life?
I think this is a position all of us should consider. It completely shifts the debate and I think we can win with it.
Think about it.