GOP not talking about abortion at Republican convention – news round-up

Trump brags about ending Roe. No one’s talking about it in Milwaukee.

Heading into the final day of the Republican Party’s first national gathering since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, the issue has barely received a passing mention.

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Conspicuously absent from Republican convention was any mention of abortion

The GOP has taken notice. Many Republicans, including Vance, have started to publicly downplay their anti-abortion stances. In Arizona, a major swing state, a handful of Republicans even defected and voted in favor of repealing a near-total abortion ban. Trump, who likes to intermittently take credit for overturning Roe, has at various points suggested he would support a national abortion ban, said that states should decide and implied they should not go too far.

Read more at The Guardian

Abortion gets the silent treatment at the RNC

Abortion: It wasn’t something that Republicans were talking about this week — especially Trump. But the party still adopted a new policy platform in Milwaukee that opposes abortion by encouraging states to give legal rights to fetuses.

Read more at 19th News