Two striking abortion rights ads put out by President Joe Biden’s campaign have something in common: both focus on Texas women who had to travel to terminate pregnancies they desperately wanted.
Abortion rights groups are glad to see Biden embracing the issue. But they’re frustrated by his campaign’s focus on only one kind of abortion — the “good” kind, as one put it. And it’s creating tension between these activists, who are worried about perpetuating stigma, and Democratic politicians and strategists who say it’s simply good tactics.
One Democratic strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid publicly criticizing abortion rights groups, told NOTUS that abortion rights advocates criticizing the Biden campaign ads are “willfully ignoring the political imperative here.”