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EDITORIAL: An odd legislative drama playing out in Michigan this week draws an important distinction between the two parties when it comes to dissenting views on abortion policy.
On an issue of preeminent importance for Catholics — the right to life — it’s clear that the 2024 presidential campaign will again demonstrate just how unbridgeable the divide is between America’s two major political parties.
For the Republicans, the most recent debate, Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California, only briefly touched on abortion, focusing mainly on the national economy and the country’s deepening immigration crisis.
But what exchanges took place on stage there and elsewhere on the campaign trail have underscored that while the GOP itself is collectively pro-life, individual candidates have differing opinions over the best policies to protect the unborn.
While some, including former vice president Mike Pence, support a national 15-week abortion ban, for example, former U.N. ambassador and onetime South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has adopted a more pragmatic tone, not wanting to raise unrealistic hopes of reaching a consensus on abortion in such a hopelessly divided Congress.
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On an issue of preeminent importance for Catholics — the right to life — it’s clear that the 2024 presidential campaign will again demonstrate just how unbridgeable the divide is between America’s two major political parties.
For the Republicans, the most recent debate, Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California, only briefly touched on abortion, focusing mainly on the national economy and the country’s deepening immigration crisis.
But what exchanges took place on stage there and elsewhere on the campaign trail have underscored that while the GOP itself is collectively pro-life, individual candidates have differing opinions over the best policies to protect the unborn.
While some, including former vice president Mike Pence, support a national 15-week abortion ban, for example, former U.N. ambassador and onetime South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has adopted a more pragmatic tone, not wanting to raise unrealistic hopes of reaching a consensus on abortion in such a hopelessly divided Congress.
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America’s Abortion Impasse
EDITORIAL: An odd legislative drama playing out in Michigan this week draws an important distinction between the two parties when it comes to dissenting views on abortion policy.
