Abortion opponents give lukewarm response to RNC platform which omits mention of national ban

Anti-abortion groups were still behind Donald Trump after Monday’s announcement of the draft platform to be adopted by the Republican Party at its convention in August.

But there were clear signs that at least some on the far right are miffed atthe obvious efforts by Trumpworld to chart a less restrictive (and maybe more electable) position on reproductive rights as the battle against the Democrats comes into focus and the incumbent president’s campaign makes clear that the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs Wade will be a main line of attack.

Monday came as Democrats are entering their second week of a four-alarm fire over Joe Biden’s performance in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election cycle. The president, who sounded hoarse and could not finish his thoughts coherently at a few points, has continued to espouse his support for codifying the now-defunct standard set by Roe into federal law if he is given sufficient Democratic majorities in Congress. It’s a proposition that appears far out of reach given polling of the race, including an Emerson poll released this week which has Biden below Trump in every swing state he won from the Republicans in 2020.

Republicans, meanwhile, remain gleefully quiet amid their opponent’s campaign meltdown. The main news from the GOP in the past few days was Monday’s adoption of the draft political platform for the party’s 2024 campaign by an RNC committee, and what the document says about the careful course the national Republican Party is at least attempting to charton the issue of reproductive rights in a post-Roe era.

The platform indicates the party’s total opposition to “late-term” abortion, while simultaneously declaring support for «policies that