When sexual harassment allegations surfaced last week against U.S. Sen. Al Franken, Abby Honold was shaken. Franken, who had written a bill with Honold to help rape victims like herself, was now himself the focus of misconduct allegations. Honold decided she needed a different sponsor, fearing that legislation with Franken’s name attached could be doomed. “I was not willing to sacrifice the future of the bill and have it associated in any way with someone accused of something like that,” Honold said. But when Honold’s decision made national headlines, and she wrote an editorial in the Washington Post to explain...