Mr. President - 20 million Americans like me are pro-life Dems. You need our ...

Kristen Day is the executive director of Democrats For Life of America 

In January 2020, I went to a town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa to ask Pete Buttigieg, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, a very important question.

'Is there room for people like me in the Democratic Party?'

This was at the height of the primary season and pro-life Democrats, like me, were looking for a candidate who supported pro-life voices.

We had already lost then-frontrunner Joe Biden.

Just one day after re-affirming his support for the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for most abortions, he caved under pressure and declared that he opposed it.

Pro-life Democrats were left without anyone wanting their vote after we watched for years as our party steadily moved away from us.

President Bill Clinton said that abortions should be 'safe, legal, and rare.'

But then in 2012, the Democratic Party dropped the word 'rare' from its discussion of abortion in the official party platform.

President Barack Obama rallied Democrats around the goal of reducing abortions.

But then in 2016, the party officially embraced the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.

Hillary Clinton took the party even further towards the extreme by supporting a women's right to abortion up to the ninth month of pregnancy.

And sadly, on that night in Iowa, Mayor Pete made clear that pro-life Democrats didn't have any allies remaining on the debate stage.

'In 1996, and several years after that, there was language in the Democratic platform that said that we understand that people have differing views on this issue, but we are a big-tent party that includes everybody,' I told him that evening, 'Would you be open to language like that in the Democratic platform that really did say that our party is diverse and inclusive, and we want everybody?'

In short, his answer was 'no.'

'The best I can offer is that we may disagree on that very important issue and hopefully we will be able to partner on other issues,' he said.

Now once again, amid the national uproar over a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting the constitutional right to abortion may be overturned, 20 million pro-life Democrats are being ignored.

But as the Democratic party, by all indications, faces crushing losses in the 2022 midterms and potentially beyond, pro-life Democrats are asking: Is this really the time to be shrinking the tent again?

This week President Biden equated anyone that supported overturning Roe with MAGA extremists.

Really Mr. President?

As a long-time activist in the pro-life movement, I have worked with a wide coalition of pro-lifers, including Libertarians and independents, the religious and secular, brown, white, gay, straight, young, and old.

The coalition is broad and a majority would not consider themselves MAGA supporters.