‘Incredibly sad’: Anti-abortion group hammers Trumpworld over Eric Trump’s comments

Do Republicans support a national abortion ban? You’ll get different answers depending on who you ask.

As GOP delegates from around the country converged on Milwaukee this week, a behind-the-scenes spat about the party’s embrace of the anti-abortion right came to the forefront during policy drafting. Originally having contained a call for a national abortion ban, the platform’s final draft omitted that language, which would have been a departure from decades of party orthodoxy calling for the issue to be in the hands of state governments.

On Wednesday, it spilled out into public view as a major anti-abortion group took aim at Eric Trump.

The ex-president’s son indicated that he saw abortion rights as a comparatively minor issue in the face of others such as inflation. Speaking on NBC News, he was asked directly why the platform omitted support for an abortion ban.

“My father has always been there on those issues,” claimed Eric Trump. “That’s reflective of my father and what he believes in… and my wife Lara who runs the RNC and what she believes in. At the end of the day, this country has holes in the roof, and you’ve got to fix those holes and stop worrying about the spot on the wall in the basement.”

When asked about the RNC and his father no longer standing against abortion or for marriage between one man and one woman, Eric Trump compares trying to save the lives of babies and standing for biblical marriage as “worrying about spots on the wall in the basement.”

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That comment elicited a scathing response from Students for Life Action.

“If anyone should understand firsthand how a culture of death that minimizes people’s humanity can lead to terrible consequences, it should be the