This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.

Republicans released their party platform in preparation for next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, and most media coverage got it dangerously wrong.

Pundits had been expecting the platform to include some kind of national abortion ban—likely a 15-week ban, since that had been the GOP position the party publicly coalesced around. What Republicans delivered instead was a radical embrace of fetal “personhood,” a complete adoption of Trumpian double-speak on abortion and further proof that overturning Roe v. Wade was part of........

© Rewire.News