What Went Down In The Fourth Democratic Debate

Harris dives into how Republicans across the country are passing new abortion restrictions. That issue has not come up a lot before. All of the candidates are generally opposed to those GOP laws, so not a big difference among the candidates.

According to that Kaiser Family Foundation poll I just mentioned, Democrats do want to hear more about reproductive health care issues! Fifty-eight percent said that too little time has been spent on that issue. And Harris got big applause for it.

Several of the candidates have access to reproductive health care as part of their platforms. But this is usually focused on abortion, not other kinds of reproductive health care — which is affected by opposition to abortion. Hundreds of sexual health clinics have closed across the country in recent years, and the CDC now says this is directly responsible for record-breaking increases in STI cases.