Anxious Pro-Lifers Demand Anti-Abortion Commitment from GOP as Party Convention Draws Near

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Pro-life demonstrators listen as former vice president Mike Pence addresses the National Celebrate Life Day Rally commemorating the first anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization case that overturned Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2023.

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As the Republican National Convention draws near, movement pro-lifers are becoming concerned that the party will water down its historic commitment to their cause at the behest of the party’s leader and presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

Trump ran on a commitment to protect the unborn in 2016 and is considered by many to be the most accomplished pro-life president in history, given his role in nominating the Supreme Court justices who would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade. But since his defeat in 2020, Trump has publicly and privately suggested that abortion has become an electoral liability for Republicans.

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

Audrey Fahlberg

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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