Democrats are so singularly focused on abortion that the party is now arguing that the First Amendment dictates that Planned Parenthood must be given taxpayer funding.

Democratic attorneys general from 23 states are suing the Trump administration over defunding Planned Parenthood, emboldened by a liberal activist judge who has ordered that funding continue. California Attorney General and candidate for governor Rob Bonta characterized it as follows: “We need to just call it what it is: punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion. The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda.”