For those of us who favor a new direction within the Democratic party on this issue, I think this sort of activity from the Obama campaign is disappointing, to put it mildly. We desperately need a new way of talking about the abortion issue, but these ads simply regurgitate the same old positions.

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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