There is a new normal in the abortion debate because what it means to be "pro-choice" in America has changed. It is a change likely to be missed in the reporting on this week's annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. But it is a change that could be one of the biggest surprises in an already-surprising presidential-election cycle.
Each year about this time breathless headlines announce that the "pro-life" or "pro-choice" label is preferred by a narrow majority of Americans, yet it remains a more or less 50–50 proposition. In other words, the message is that America remains "a house divided" unable or unwilling to change the status quo.
A new ad produced by an anti-Donald Trump super PAC is taking aim at the billionaire frontrunner's claim that he is ideologically conservative.
The ad, a creation of the Our Principles PAC, which was recently founded by Katie Packer, a former aide to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, uses Trump's own words in interviews over the years to showcase his liberal views on issues ranging from universal health care to stronger gun control.
