Republicans adopt Trump's policy platform, omit call for national abortion ban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The Republican National Committee adopted former President Donald Trump's policy platform on Monday ahead of the party's convention next week, including his preferred position that abortion laws be left up to the state and excluding the call for a federal abortion ban for the first time in 40 years.
47% : Despite Trump and his team's best efforts, the American people are clear on just how far he would go to rip away their freedoms - and they'll vote accordingly this November.
46% : The platform committee began its meeting Monday, a week before the start of the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin where Trump is scheduled to accept his third straight nomination for president.
44% : Trump ally Russ Vought is serving as the policy director of the Republican Party's platform writing committee while also leading the effort to draft the 180-day agenda for Project 2025, a sweeping proposal for remaking government that Trump said Friday he knew "nothing about" despite having several former aides involved.
41% : "The Biden campaign and Democrats argued that Trump's previous statements and stances, as well as his alliances with anti-abortion groups and advocates, are a more telling depiction of what his abortion policies will be in a second term than the platform he presents to general election voters."Donald Trump has made it clear with his own words and actions what he will do if he regains power - rip away women's freedoms, punish women, and ban abortion nationwide," Biden campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in a statement.
40% : "Most Americans tend to think of Donald Trump as a conservative, but what's been particularly interesting in this platform debate is that Trump and his allies are looking to move the Republican platform, at least on social and cultural issues, away from the right to the center," said Dan Schnur, a professor at the University of California - Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies.
32% : The policy platform mentions the word "abortion" once, on its 15th page, and attempts to boast of Republicans being responsible for the end of Roe v. Wade, while emphasizing that laws regulating abortion should be left to the states, a case Trump has made as abortion restrictions have grown increasingly unpopular since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022.
29% : Trump had supported federal legislation in 2018 that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, though the measure fell short of the necessary support in the Senate.
28% : "At least one of those allies, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser, signed onto a letter pushing Trump not to abandon the call for a national abortion ban, but conceded on Monday that the ultimate "mission of the pro-life movement, for the next four months, must be to defeat the Biden-Harris extreme abortion agenda.
26% : "Since he first ran for president in 2016, Trump has publicly both agreed and disagreed with the notion that women and doctors should be punished for abortions, more recently saying in April that he would leave it up to the states to decide whether they would criminally penalize women who receive abortions and even monitor their pregnancies.
22% : "Trump himself said that women should be punished for having an abortion, that doctors should be criminalized for doing their jobs, and that he's 'looking at' restrictions on birth control.

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