Donald Trump, as a second-term president, would likely sign a national ban on abortion and appoint more judges who think a zygote has more rights than an adult woman. But Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, does not want any pro-choice independents to know that.
So, then, we have the 2024 Republican Party platform. Unveiled Monday, it was greeted by headlines from CNN to NBC News noting its “softening” stance on terminating a pregnancy. Manufactured by a platform committee that excluded a pair of “hardline anti-abortion delegates” at the Trump campaign’s behest, it does indeed stop short of demanding that “The Handmaid’s Tale” be made real — at least at the federal level, at least for now.
