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While researching an article for RHRealityCheck Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon discovered she’d bought the same primary-season fallacies I’d bought. A bit of water under the bridge perhaps (so I’ve obscured some names in the excerpt) but

I also bought the [primary-season —fl] narrative that while Obama is spotlessly pro-choice in every way, he doesn’t consider the issue a priority.  What I found was that’s not true at all.  Obama doesn’t just sign off on pro-choice legislation, but he actively introduces it.  He’s introduced the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, and was a co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act, which reads like a wish list of pro-choice policy items.

She said it here.

No matter what happens with the elections, no matter what happens with Roe and the Supreme Court and the antics in various throwback states (one hopes the answer is “Roe gets strengthened not hollowed out), and no matter that William Saletan sees it as a reaction to 90-era fear of conservatism, I love that Prevention-First Act philosophy of preventing unplanned, unwanted pregnancy in the first place. I knew Senators Clinton and Reid were cosponsors and big supporters, I didn’t know Obama helped introduce it. Good for him.

Update: Make that a possible unpleasant surprise. According to Ann Bartow, yeeks! Prevention First may become very necessary if the five-vote anti-choice majority in the Supreme Court no longer feels constrained to prop up Bush/McCain administration.

Note: I began anticipating something like this, and the need for something like Prevention First, back in 1996.