“It’s not really been a great week for the pro-life movement,” former Family Research Council Action Vice President Tom McClusky said Wednesday, opening his remarks for the “Beyond Dobbs” panel at the National Conservatism Conference.

McCluskey was lamenting the triple whammy of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) accepting the legality of the abortion drug mifepristone, then Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) endorsing President Donald Trump’s abandonment of a national abortion ban, and then the release of the Republican Party platform, which did remove language calling for a national ban on abortions that had been in earlier platforms.