This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become.
“We proudly stand for families and life. We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process and that the states are, therefore, free to pass laws protecting those rights. After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the states and to a vote of the people. We will oppose late term abortion while supporting mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to birth control, and IVF (fertility treatments).” —The draft of the GOP’s 2024 policy platform on abortion
AdvertisementThere has been infighting among social conservatives about what exactly to say about abortion in the Republican party platform this year, the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In 2016 and 2020, the platform called for a constitutional amendment to give fetuses legal rights and a federal ban after 20 weeks, but strategists admitted that the latter proposal was “a remnant of a strategy to overturn Roe.” This time around, anti-abortion activists wanted to call for a nationwide ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy or earlier.
Donald Trump—convicted felon, adjudicated sexual assailant, and current presidential front-runner—knows that abortion is an electoral liability and has been trying to get voters to believe that he opposes federal restrictions. He claims that he instead wants abortion to remain a state issue, and his team thinks that it can spin this as Trump’s being........