A sure sign Trump occupies the middle ground: he’s being criticized by the right as well as the left, while no abortion supporter, however radical, feels a need to criticize Harris.
There are two uncompromising sides in the abortion debate — and then there’s the middle, which is where most Americans are.
It’s also where Donald Trump is: He’s best described as a pro-life moderate.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, on the other hand, are neither pro-life nor moderate.
The Democratic ticket wants to impose one policy on the whole country, a policy to allow abortion up to the point of birth.
Common sense tells ordinary Americans that when they see a pregnant woman, there’s a baby inside her.
Ultrasound imaging makes clear just what the baby inside looks like, including in early months when it’s not outwardly obvious a woman’s pregnant.
Late-term abortions, when it’s easy to understand a baby’s life is being taken, deeply trouble voters.
They’re willing to make exceptions if the mother’s life is in danger or the baby’s unable to live outside the womb, but otherwise they believe these procedures should be restricted.
For lawmakers and the public, the hard question is just how late is “late-term.”
How far along does a pregnancy have to be before the law recognizes and protects a child?
For Kamala Harris, that’s an easy question because she doesn’t think there should be limits on abortion, no matter how late.
Pro-life activists upset at Trump because he says a ban on abortion after six weeks, as in Florida, is too early — though he also opposes a Florida constitutional amendment aimed at loosening the law — should worry more about where Harris stands on abortion after six months.
