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How making abortion a state issue could work for Trump
After winning favour with the evangelical right, the former president’s latest policy on abortion is all about appeasing Republican moderates, particularly the suburban women he has lost.
Matthew CranstonUnited States correspondentWashington | Democrat political strategists won’t like Donald Trump’s latest abortion and IVF policy, but not because he’s doubled down on the pro-life rhetoric of his first mandate.
Rather, his latest stance – of letting the states ban or set their own term limits and conditions on legal pregnancy termination – makes him out as a sort of moderate on the issue. The aim is to recapture the suburban women who have been moving away from Trump, according to some polling.
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