After Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced that pro-life Democrats are dead to him and can expect no help from the party apparatus, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was among those contradicting him. It isn’t hard to see why: The Democratic Party cannot build a House majority by retrenching itself in the values of the white urban gentry — precisely the way it has seen its geographic scope disappear in recent years.

Another quick dissenter was Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who changed his position on abortion after being elected as a pro-lifer. He went on Bill Press’ show for an interview today, and Press asked him whether there was room for pro-lifers in the Democratic Party. “There needs to be,” Ryan said.