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Perhaps no issue has been used more effectively by political parties in recent decades to motivate and divide voters than abortion, with its emotional resonance. Without it, our partisan landscape might look quite different. Part one of an occasional series.
When Kristen Day joined the nonprofit Democrats for Life of America in 2002, she wanted only to be put out of business.
A new mom at the time, she had dreamed of a day when abortion would become a nonpartisan issue; when people who called themselves “pro-life” could support the cause regardless of whether they identified as Democrat or Republican; when a lawmaker’s career would no longer hinge on how he or she voted on an abortion bill. She says she believed that moment was near.