The GOP platform tries to thread a difficult needle on abortion

Published July 8, 2024 4:23pm ET



After much speculation about what influence former President Donald Trump would wield over the Republican Party platform’s abortion provisions, the final result looked fairly similar to the platforms of years past but with much more toned-down language.

This is what the party platform said in part in 2016:

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