Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted it first, telling the Manchester, New Hampshire, audience at Friday night’s Democratic presidential debate that, if elected president, he would have a litmus test on abortion for any justice nominated to the high court. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went further, pledging to “never nominate any person to the Supreme Court or the federal courts in general who is not 100% pro-Roe v. Wade.”

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar concurred. But it was the billionaire political novice, Tom Steyer, who capsulized the unspoken reality: “We all have the litmus test. Everyone in this row feels the same about Roe v. Wade. Everybody on this stage feels the same way about a woman’s right to choose.”