Anti-abortion advocates are feeling “abandoned,” by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has shifted the party-platform from staunchly pro-life to a side-stepped subject with a murky policy agenda during his second bid for the White House.
In an Op-Ed penned for the New York Times Friday, conservative policy analyst Patrick T. Brown bemoaned the future of a Republican party led by Trump waffling on abortion.
“The Republican nominee seems all too content to sell out those of us who got into politics to advance policies that protect what we see as human life from its earliest stages,” Brown writes. “At this point, the best-case scenario for pro-lifers may be hoping that a second Trump administration hires some social conservatives for key administration roles — but that is far from a given.”
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The column comes a day after the conclusion of a Republican National Convention where the topic of abortion was, “conspicuously absent,” the Guardian reports. Neither Trump nor his running mate Ohio Gov. J.D. Vance, who has previously called for a national ban on abortion, made any mention of it.
“Pro-life organizations that insist the G.O.P. remains as pro-life today as it was in the recent past are deluding themselves,” Brown writes in his Op-Ed. “And the socially conservative groups that cheer the former president’s commitment “to the causes that millions of Americans hold so dear — protecting life and promoting the family — may be signing up for their own political obsolescence.”
A May Pew poll showed 57% of Republicans still want to see abortion illegal in all or most cases, and following the convention some pro-life groups lashed out at Republican leadership for staying hush on the topic.
“The GOP can and must do better,” Students for Life Action president Kristan Hawkins wrote in a statement, as reported by The Guardian.
