ABORTION IN AMERICAN POLITICS

A recent conversation I had explains why both Presidential candidates are "Pro-Choice:"

ME: Are you aware that Trump’s proposed “fifteen week ban” would overturn the restrictions on abortion in the states that have those restrictions, and that 96 percent of abortions in the United States take place before the fifteenth week? Effectively, Trump is “pro-choice,” but has disguised it from the ignorant masses simply by using the word “ban” in such a way that we might as well bring back Roe v. Wade. That happens to be what the facts are. 

HIM: Trump could not get this passed in a Republican Congress. Second, he has deferred this issue to the states.

ME: It is not he who has deferred it: That is simply where the Dobbs decision leaves us at the moment. Actually, the only reason that the national ban of fifteen weeks was removed from the Republican platform is because they are trying to play down the whole issue inasmuch as it is, sadly, a winning strategy for the Democrats to cast the Republicans as favoring a national ban. The absurdity that such a ban would effectively, to use the Democrats' term, "Codify Roe" is something both parties expect the public to be too stupid to notice.