Unlike typical presidential candidates, Trump made more overtures to pro-lifers after winning the primary than he did while it was going on.
“It’s great,” Dannenfelser told The Daily Beast in June. “It’s why it makes it easier for me to be open-minded, because we are dealing with somebody who is not a typical candidate—he just does things very differently.”
Dannenfelser was a vocal Trump critic during the primary.
Before the Iowa and South Carolina contests, she joined other female pro-life leaders in urging Republicans to back anyone but Trump. They found his kind words for Planned Parenthood to be very disturbing. And Trump’s decision to bail on a meeting with a group of pro-life Catholic priests didn’t do him any favors with the pro-life community. And when the Supreme Court levelled a devastating blow to the pro-life community by overturning Texas’s abortion regulations, Trump stayed mum. And they didn’t like it.
Her decision to work with him suggests the tensions that had divided Trump from the pro-life community have largely dissipated.
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