Democrats for Life

Representative Tim Ryan, a co-sponsor of the Ryan-Delauro bill - legislation that seeks to provide funding for a range of programs to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, while supporting women who chose to continue with an unplanned pregnancy - was ousted from Democrats for Life today for not being anti-choice enough.

When emotions get heated among those who disagree on abortion rights, it can be easy to settle the conversation by calling on adoption as a "compromise." Is treating adoption as a solution to abortion the best way to craft sensible adoption policy?

It's an official quadrennial tradition: Every four years, self-described moderates advise the Democratic Party that its long-standing and electorally successful pro-choice position is the reason that "values voters" are deserting the party. We are told these voters could be brought into the fold if Democrats would temper their defense of women's freedom with tacit condemnation of the choices many women make.