“Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 on a Republican platform that called for a federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and a ‘human life amendment’ to the U.S. Constitution that would give the fetus legal protections,” the Washington Post reports.
“Eight years later, Trump now calls for states, not the federal government, to decide on any limits on the procedure in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion.
”“That has prompted a debate among social conservatives about whether the Republican Party’s official position should change, too, as Trump’s campaign has handpicked a group of Republican officials to write a new Republican platform for next month’s GOP convention in Milwaukee. Abortion is one of a number of platform positions — from support for Ukraine to opposition to same-sex marriage — that could change dramatically in the wake of Trump’s takeover of the party.”