The pushback seems to be clear.
We want our elected officials and those with party positions to hold to the party platform when speaking publicly on reproductive rights.
Here is what the 2016 Democratic Party Platform states. P 37 Para 3
Democrats are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice. We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured. We believe that reproductive health is core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing. We will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide critical health services to millions of people. We will continue to oppose—and seek to overturn—federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment. We condemn and will combat any acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation of reproductive health providers, patients, and staff. We will defend the ACA, which extends affordable preventive health care to women, including no- cost contraception, and prohibits discrimination in health care based on gender.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf
A majority of the country supports choice in most all instances. Same goes for an overwhelming majority of Democrats and a majority of moderate Republicans.
Speaking with one voice should be expected. I'm well aware that people who are anti-choice will be running as Democrats. Most probably in red districts(Those not in red districts will have a tough time in a primary). Depending on the circumstances I understand that a little party money or support might go to that candidate. That doesn't mean it should be advertised. That is the establishment going against the party platform.
That said, some of our biggest players speak a similar tune.
Pelosi: Democratic candidates should not be forced to toe party line on abortion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-democratic-candidates-should-not-be-forced-to-toe-party-line-on-abortion/2017/05/02/9cbc9bc6-2f68-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.ff0a112a0d8e
Bernie Sanders: “We have got to appreciate where people come from and do our best to fight for the pro-choice agenda,” Sanders told NPR in April. “But I think you just can’t exclude people who disagree with us on one issue.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/people-are-really-mad-at-the-dccc-for-saying-it-will-continue-to-fund-pro-life-candidates/
The type of pushback we are seeing does work. Here is a very recent example.
Perez had previously suggested that the Democratic Party should not “demand fealty” on every issue, including abortion. After NARAL’s criticism, however, the DNC Chair put out a statement widely viewed inside and outside the Democratic Party as a demand for unequivocal support for the party’s pro-choice platform.
“Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health,” the chair said. “That is not negotiable.” He added: “We must speak up for this principle as loudly as ever and with one voice.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/526551/
There is nothing overblown about the pushback and I think some positive will even come from it. They just might remember the party platform the next time the speak.
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