Republican infighting about abortion could spell trouble again in 2024

Former President Donald Trump is facing criticism from his own party over his approach to talking about abortion as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee fights to change the GOP’s platform.

Trump says abortion should be left to states to decide, and he wants the 2024 Republican platform to reflect his position. Changing the Republican Party’s platform would be a departure from the GOP’s decadeslong support for a federal ban on abortion. The position would align with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 that returned the abortion question back to the states.