Trump Team To Revise Abortion Plank In GOP Platform

The Washington Post reports:

Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language for the 2024 Republican platform that antiabortion leaders expect will abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to extend personhood protections to the unborn. The escalating behind-the-scenes disagreement over the abortion language has become so tense and acrimonious in recent weeks that some social conservative leaders have issued public warnings.

Trump advisers, in turn, have been angered by the public pressure from antiabortion activists, according to people familiar with the campaign’s internal discussions. At the same time, Trump allies are not overly worried about the platform skirmish, because evangelicals strongly opposed to abortion have remained among his most fervent supporters regardless of his evolving positions on the issue.

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Earlier this week anti-LGBTQ hate groups and anti-abortion evangelical groups announced the formation of a coalition against watering down the GOP platform’s stances on abortion and same-sex marriage. Hate group leader Tony Perkins has expressed alarm in multiple Family Research Council press releases.

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