Last Friday, at a breakfast for the Susan B. Anthony List, Sarah Palin reiterated that it should only support candidates for public office who are uncompromisingly opposed to abortion. Our book, Red Families v. Blue Families, explains how politicians have made abortion a political wedge issue. In the seventies, Republicans and Democrats held virtually identical views on abortion; today, 33% of Republicans versus 12% of Democrats would outlaw it.

Palin’s more astounding claim is that abortion rights advocates are telling young women that they aren’t “capable” of pursuing motherhood and a career. We have wracked out brains to think of a progressive whom Palin could be describing, and we can’t think of one who would argue women must have abortions because they can’t combine motherhood and a career. Nor can we imagine that Palin has read that many feminist works that we haven’t.

Instead, the more we thought about it, the more we thought, “She could be talking about us.” Last week, Ross Douthat thoughtfully wrote about us in The New York Times, observing that: Read More