Six months ago I wrote about how Donald Trump was supposedly in trouble on the issue of abortion. High-profile members of the pro-life community were threatening to abandon him. Consequently, Democrats were musing over the possibility of riding the abortion rights train to a White House-House-Senate trifecta.

The root of all that was language like this from Trump: “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.”

To some on the right, that statement was anathema. Having “won” in the Supreme Court with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, some pro-lifers wanted to press the advantage and push for federal legislative abortion restrictions.

The attacks on Trump made no sense to me back then. So many in the pro-life crowd, myself included, had been arguing for decades that abortion was, by its very nature, not a federal issue. Trump’s position heading into the election, then, had somehow gone from 50-year-old........

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