GOP Is Having Second Thoughts on Abortion: Francis Wilkinson

The Republican Party, the political home of a four-decade, church-allied, moral crusade against abortion rights, is having second thoughts.

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake’s “tactical retreat” from her past position on abortion. Lake, a Donald Trump acolyte and true believer in expediency, had previously cheered for a 19th century Arizona law that criminalized abortion and had called for Arizona to become a “sanctuary state for the unborn.” Now, she has joined Trump and other Republicans who are eager “to recalibrate on an issue that has become a political albatross in ...