VIEWPOINT: Republicans can't do anything about the abortion issue

By Froma Harrop

Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” Donald Trump said that following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. Other Republican candidates have used the same words.

The problem for Republicans is not how they talk abortion but what they did about it. Trump vowed that as president he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion. He did and they did.

Reproductive rights are not some debate club topic like tax breaks for electric vehicles. They affect the core of family well-being. How many children parents can properly care for and afford. Whether they can protect the future of a 10th grader impregnated by her boyfriend.