Republicans play dumb about GOP's extreme abortion platform

Anti-abortion Republicans are either clueless or gaslighting us when it comes to the abortion platform the RNC adopted this week. It’s possible they only read the headlines declaring that the new platform is “soft” on abortion. Just as likely, their anger over the platform is performative and aimed at keeping up the fiction that the GOP has officially moderated its position on the issue. 

A handful of prominent Republicans are complaining about the fact that language from the 2016 and 2020 platforms declaring a “fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed” and a call for a national 20-week ban has been dropped, News From The States reported.

“I’m pro-life and I like the way it was previously,” Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said.

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa agreed, saying “I am pro-life and I am always going to be adamantly pro-life.”

“[W]ould I like to see more robust (language) in the platform? Certainly,” she continued. “But that’s not the way it’s going to be. So we’re just going to have to continue fighting for life.”