Democrats Are Falling Into a Political Trap on Abortion

Anti-choicers are forcing Democratic candidates to defend supposed ‘birthday abortions’ — a procedure that doesn’t actually exist

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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5 min readApr 19, 2019

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen the anti-choice movement’s agenda for the 2020 race: making Democrats defend an atrocity that doesn’t actually exist.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.