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 president of Seattle University. The views expressed in this piece are his own and do not represent the views of Seattle University.

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