Why Only the Republicans Are Talking About Abortion

Article originally appeared in New York Times on August 26th, 2020.

The Democrats are “trying to have such a big tent that they’re forgetting that they are leaving a whole lot of us out of this conversation,” said Renee Bracey Sherman, a reproductive justice activist who started a campaign during the 2016 presidential primary to encourage discussion of abortion. “They say Black women are the base of our party. Well, guess who has abortions? Black women. The majority of people who have abortions are women of color.”