2) I have voted for probably a hundred Republicans who held the identical position since gaining the age of majority.
And I’m sure just about all of you have too.
Just four years ago, this very site was jam-packed with posters noisily championing someone with the exact same "severely conservative" position.
Many of the exact same ones making showy, headlong dives toward the fainting couch right now, in fact.
My mother has belonged to pro-life organizations since before Roe v. Wade was even decided. Every year they send her their candidate endorsements. And every year they endorse large numbers of Republicans whose position is identical to Trump.
They take pains to point out that they NEVER agree with abortion under any circumstances. But that all the Dems pretty much would have unfettered open season on them.
Sadly too many of our candidates have been trapped in interviews with Katie Couric-types who had them stammering around in circles over whether they’d force their daughter to carry to term if she was raped.