On NBC today, Savannah Guthrie asked Trump whether the Republican platform’s discussion of abortion should be modified. “The Republican platform every four years has a provision that states that the right of the unborn child should not be infringed. And it makes no exceptions for rape, for incest, for the life of the mother. Would you want to change the Republican platform to include the exceptions that you have?” His response: “Yes, I would. Yes, I would. Absolutely. For the three exceptions, I would.”

CNN’s write-up (linked above) accurately reports that the Republican platform is silent on the question of these exceptions, and that past Republican nominees have supported them.

What does not often get noted is that the Democratic platform is parallel to the Republican one. It announces a principle and is silent on what limits, if any, should be set on it: “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right. Abortion is an intensely personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, and her clergy; there is no place for politicians or government to get in the way.” That’s an explicit, albeit coded, endorsement of taxpayer funding for abortion; and the platform implies opposition to a prohibition on eighth-month abortions at least as strongly as the Republican platform implies opposition to abortion in cases of rape.

For some reason reporters never seem to ask Democrats about their party platform’s language on abortion.