The muzzled dog that didn’t bark at last week’s Republican National Convention was abortion. 

And with good reason.

Heading into the fall general election, abortion remains a political timebomb that the GOP doesn’t know how to defuse.

Since three Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices joined in overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans have lost in Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia, when the races became proxies for abortion rights. 

Even in ruby-red Ohio, Buckeye State voters cast ballots in support of abortion rights last November. 

As a result, last week’s convention sidestepped abortion at every dangerous turn. 

Prominent abortion rights leaders tried to raise their voices when they sent a June 10 letter to former President Trump calling for the platform to endorse a federally-imposed limits on abortion.

Instead, they got silence.

While the 2016 platform mentioned abortion rights 35 times, the 2024 platform mentions it only once. 

That prompted small protests in Milwaukee. 

On the Sunday night before the convention began, the Washington Post reported that a large crowd of abortion opponents displayed their fury with the platform’s watered-down stance on abortion. 

At a protest near a convention welcome party, the protestors shouted “Blood, blood, blood on your hands!”

Some of the protests became........

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