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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
RNS Weekly Digest: Trump, once ‘most pro-life president,’ riles anti-abortion activists with new stance
President Donald Trump, who has touted himself as the “most pro-life president ever” and whose Supreme Court appointments clinched the majority that would overturn Roe v. Wade, has pivoted away from more strident anti-abortion rhetoric and railed against a six-week abortion ban, signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as a “terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
Earlier this year, Trump blamed the “abortion issue” for the GOP’s lackluster results in the 2022 midterm elections. And during a Sept. 18 appearance on “Meet the Press,” he pledged to work with Democrats to pass national abortion legislation if elected.
His stance is raising frustration among anti-abortion activists and spurring his Republican primary opponents to try to peel away conservative religious voters from the former president.
Shawheen Keyani boarded a bus from San Diego to San Jose, knowing nothing about his fellow passengers except that they all shared the same ancient faith. He was one of roughly 20 young people, Zoroastrians who had wandered away from their childhood faith, setting out on a multiday, cross-California road trip to visit six Zoroastrian houses of worship, known as dar-e-mehrs.
It had been more than 15 years since Keyani, 32, had stepped foot in a dar-e-mehr, and he wasn’t sure what to expect.
“I was thinking, ‘Well, this is technically my people, and I’ve been really out of touch,’” said Keyani. “And I sort of went into the road trip with a hypothesis for myself: Am I going to feel anything?”
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