This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.

In their first national convention since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrats chose the safe and predictable route, voting to adopt a party platform that advocates for a “return to Roe” instead of anything braver or bolder.

It’s a safe position. It’s a predictable position. And it recreates a failed political compromise on bodily autonomy that, historically, did little to ensure abortion access, but cemented abortion as a political hot potato passed between political parties and administrations.

Roe wasn’t enough ten years ago, and it certainly isn’t enough today. Even the rollout of the Democratic messaging on abortion........

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