Sorry, Trump. The Issue of Abortion Is Not Going Away.

If there is one thing we have learned from Republicans during this election, it is that they would like the issue of abortion to disappear.

Donald Trump, who only eight years ago called for “some kind of punishment” to be meted out to women who procured abortions, now speaks of “reproductive rights,” a formulation preferred by proponents of legal abortion. References to abortion have been all but eliminated from the party’s platform. Even JD Vance, whose opposition to abortion is perhaps his most firmly established political position, now says that the oral abortifacient mifepristone should remain accessible.