Clara Cunningham
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Trump’s Careful Abortion Calculus
But by the end of his first full week in office, President Trump waded back into an issue that he finds particularly politically treacherous: abortion.
Late last week, amid a hailstorm of other policy measures, the president pardoned 23 anti-abortion protesters. He overturned two orders issued by former President Joseph Biden that had burnished federal abortion protections. And he reinstated a longstanding Republican policy barring federal funds from going to organizations overseas that perform or promote abortions.
Those moves on abortion were nothing like the shock-and-awe approach Trump took to immigration or D.E.I., and they fell far short of what his conservative, anti-abortion base would eventually like him to do.