Progressive, atheist, pro-life. One of these things is not like the other, but all are words that describe the newest candidate to enter the race for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
Pro-life activist Terrisa Bukovinac announced her bid to run as a Democrat in the 2024 presidential election on Thursday. Bukovinac is the founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a pro-life organization committed to combating abortion despite maintaining a leftist stance on other political and social issues.
Outside the pro-life or progressive camps, Bukovinac’s name may be unknown, especially compared to her competitors in the Democratic primary such as Kennedy and Biden. But Bukovinac’s run is not about winning. She hopes to bring a “much-needed voice of reason” to the Democratic Party on the topic of abortion, according to National Review.
“Any FCC TV station must run the ads of any federal candidate uncensored, and through these ads I will expose the human rights atrocities committed in abortion businesses across the country,” Bukovinac explained to me.
Bukovinac made headlines in March 2022 when she, along with fellow PAAU activist Lauren Handy, announced they had found the remains of 115 first-trimester babies and five preemie-sized babies outside the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., workplace of late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo. The remains appeared to be evidence of illegal partial-birth abortions, but Handy and the pro-life activists were the only ones to face criminal investigation and prosecution, not Santangelo.
“The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery
