Republican presidential candidates try to out-do each other on abortion

Republican abortion bans are very unpopular. Yet a significant chunk of Republican primary voters—especially evangelical Christians—demand more abortion bans. That’s a challenge for presidential primary candidates, and one they had to confront head-on over the weekend at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority conference. (The “freedom” in the name is not the freedom to make your own medical decisions.)

Donald Trump, far and away the frontrunner in the Republican primary, is looking ahead to the general election. He tries to woo anti-abortion hardliners by reminding them of the past, claiming that at a campaign event, “A woman stood up and said, ‘This guy ended Roe v. Wade. How the hell can you go against him?”