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More than two weeks have passed since Donald Trump told an interviewer that he would reveal whether he supports banning the use and distribution of drugs used in medication abortions “over the next week or two.” But the major cable and broadcast newscasts and most influential newspapers seem to have moved on, according to a Media Matters review of their coverage.
This lack of media interest allows the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to stay silent and avoid angering either the general public, which supports medication abortion, or his anti-abortion supporters, who desperately want it ended.
While Trump regularly takes credit on the campaign trail for ending Roe v. Wade’s protections for abortion rights through his Supreme Court appointments, he has largely avoided commenting on how far he’ll go to limit those rights if he returns to the White House.