3 prominent Republicans advocating for GOP to take softer stance on abortion
Marco Rubio
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another potential vice presidential pick for former President Donald Trump, appeared to express support for removing the plan to pass a national abortion ban from the GOP’s party platform. Rubio asserted that it’s up to voters to decide how they want to restrict abortion or whether they want to restrict it at all.
“Our platform has to reflect our nominee, and our nominee’s position happens to be one grounded in reality,” Rubio said during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
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In response to a question about whether he's concerned that pro-life donors and voters would stop supporting Trump, Rubio replied, “Not really.”
“Because I don’t think that there’s much of an option here. It looks like no matter who the Democrats nominate — it looks like maybe [Vice President] Kamala Harris would be the most liberal presidential candidate in American history or a continuation of whoever’s running the White House now with [President] Joe Biden as its figurehead — the issue is that they are going to be radical,” Rubio said.
The Republican lawmaker asserted that Trump is the only pro-life candidate in the 2024 presidential race, adding that Republicans couldn’t pass a federal abortion law now even if they wanted to.
Rubio stated that the Supreme Court, in overturning Roe v. Wade, decided that abortion is a “political issue,” and now voters can “decide via the people they voted for or voted against at the state level, and that’s the reality.”
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
