Pro-Life Democrat Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign

Even as the Democratic National Committee attempts to stack the deck in President Joe Biden’s favor, he is facing intraparty opposition in the ongoing primary race. 

In addition to rivals Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson, another Democrat has recently announced her 2024 White House bid.

Terrisa Bukovinac is something of an enigma in her party. Although opposition to abortion is typically seen as a strictly conservative position, she is a self-avowed progressive and a pro-life advocate.

Furthermore, while faith is often a factor in shaping a pro-life worldview, Bukovinac is an atheist. 

Now, the founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising is sharing her complex views on the campaign trail. While seeming to acknowledge her long-shot status against an incumbent and even the other more well-known names in the Democratic primary, she has portrayed her campaign as an effort to bring attention to what she believes is a crucially important and often ignored topic within her party.

“Any [Federal Communications Commission] TV station must run the ads of any federal candidate uncensored, and through these ads I will expose the human rights atrocities committed in abortion businesses across the country,” Bukovinac said.

She described the campaign as a vehicle through which to introduce a “much-needed voice of reason” to the Democratic Party platform.

Bukovinac has been sounding the alarm for some time, including in an announcement last year about a disturbing discovery outside of a D.C.-area abortion clinic. Although some of the more than 100 discarded bodies found at the location were believed to have been illegally killed in partial-birth abortions, authorities pursued criminal charges against the pro-life activists but not against Cesare Santangelo, the abortionists believed to have performed the objectionable procedures.

She was subsequently subjected to a violent attack outside of an abortion clinic, evidence of which she shared on social media at the time. 

Despite the verbal and physical backlash she has received as a result of her advocacy, Bukovinac declared that she “will not stop until the toxic relationship between the Democratic Party and the abortion industry is broken and those children, and the countless children like them, have justice.”