I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday story.
As the November election approaches, some Republicans, among them former President Trump, seem to be trying to soften their image on abortion restrictions.
Take this statement from former President Trump.
In an interview with NBC News in August, he criticized a Florida law prohibiting the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.
I think the six week is too short.
This has to be more time.
And so that's, and I've told them that I want more weeks.
Trump played a key role in the overturning of Roe v.
Wade, but he appears to be adjusting his position to appeal to swing voters.
This has raised concern among some anti abortion groups, including a group of activists who favor not only state and federal restrictions, but total abortion bans without exception.
I am for the abolition of abortion, not its regulation, not its incremental, long drawn out end for the total, immediate criminalization of abortion.
This is T.
Russell Hunter speaking in April at a conference in North Carolina for activists who describe themselves as abortion abolitionists.
He leads a group called Abolitionists Rising, which hosted the conference.
Hunter's been getting his message out through social media, especially YouTube, where he has close to a quarter million followers.
I watched Donald Trump and see what he's been saying over the years about abortion.
He said contradictory things.
And so I'm looking at it.
Well, I can't vote for Donald Trump because he's still opposed to abolishing abortion.
NPR's Sarah McCammon has been following this abortion abolitionist movement over the past several months, and she joins me now.