A Biden administration rule banning the disclosure of abortion-seeking women’s health information adds a confusing layer to normal Democratic messaging on the topic. 

Renewed attention to the rule, issued this past April, comes as Texas attempts to block it by suing the Biden administration. Texas argues the Biden rule overreaches by undermining the means for enforcing a state-level abortion ban.

For the Democratic Party, abortion, broadly termed “reproductive freedom,” seems the most important matter of our time. It is central to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. Following former President Donald Trump’s influence on the GOP platform, the promotion of federal abortion regulation is increasingly Democratic-led.

The usual Democratic approach to things it wants to accomplish is regulation, every detail fair game. On the whole, the party’s hope is federal enshrinement of legal abortion, so it makes some sense to oppose state-level regulations that aim at the opposite. Still, Democrats cannot oppose the Texas suit on principle: Regulation respects regulation.

Why should things as weighty as abortion be unregulated? Democrats would lean full-in to blocking a rule that protects the information of doctors who turn away abortion requests. 

Again, the opposition makes sense in terms of the pro-abortion goal, but it speaks to inconsistency. The Democratic Party has been obvious in its efforts to normalize and trivialize abortion — just look at the Democratic National Convention’s endless propaganda and its adjacent abortion-vasectomy clinic. To insist simultaneously that abortion is “especially sensitive” and very private is not wrong but certainly is confusing. 

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Democrats want the morality of abortion to be unambiguous: that there is nothing wrong with it, nothing of which to be ashamed. They might work with privacy rules to cut around legal complications. But to support such hard-line privacy on principle is inconsistent and certainly implies the matter is, at the very least, morally fraught.

Although illogical, Democratic inconsistency is right on par with Harris’s own method of policy flip-flopping and media avoidance. Her entire campaign depends on it.