‘Moderate’ or Roe v Wade killer: can Trump have it both ways on abortion?

The former president is proud of appointing the supreme court justices who overturned the right to abortion - now the issue is a vote loser for Republicans

A few months ago, the former president Donald Trump accused the Republican party of speaking very inarticulately" on abortion. And yet, for the GOP presidential frontrunner, inarticulateness seems to be a feature, not a bug, of his own approach to abortion.

Trump thinks he can run in 2024 as a moderate" on abortion, Rolling Stone reported this week - even though he's currently running ads in Iowa, a crucial state in the Republican primary, proclaiming himself the most pro-life president ever". It's a title to which Trump has a legitimate claim: his three nominees to the supreme court not only handed the nation's highest court a definitive conservative majority, but all three voted to overturn Roe v Wade in summer 2022.