David Plouffe has the right idea! End the circular firing squad and concentrate on this!

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57. Yes - the one I was replying to posted this--

Dems should have been openly pro-choice for 50 years...nt

My post was to indicate the vast majority are and always have been "pro-choice", BUT quite a few weren't, even just a decade ago, and at the time, given we didn't have a super-majority in the House (vs the Senate), there were enough who were ready and willing to impose women's health restrictions related to abortion.

The Senate did have several, although they seemed to defer to the House since the House was tasked to "originate" the reconciliation part of the ACA (where this reconciliation used the spending & tax types).

Of those original ones who joined with Stupak, the ones I indicated that are in bold are still sitting members (shown below) -

Colin Peterson MN-07
Jim Cooper TN-05
Dan Lipinski IL-03
Stephen Lynch MA-08
Sanford Bishop GA-02
Jim Costa CA-16
Henry Cuellar TX-28
Jim Langevin RI-02
Tim Ryan OH-13
Richard Neal MA-01
Marcy Kaptur OH-09
Mike Doyle PA-14

Fast forward to last year and the H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021, where from the roll call vote, there was 1 (D) "Nay" (Cuellar - TX-28) and 1 (D) "Not Voting" (Lawson - FL-5). The rest of the Democrats, including the bolded ones, did vote "Yea" for that.