Anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins is one of the latest people to clarify that the new GOP platform could, indeed, pave the way for a nationwide abortion ban.Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post/Getty
If you listen to leading anti-abortion activists, you will notice they keep speaking a bit too honestly.
In drafting their platform, the GOP claimed the party does not plan to ban abortion nationwide (maybe because they know it is extremely politically unpopular). But the latest person to say that position is not, exactly, true is Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, an influential anti-abortion advocacy group.
In an interview published Monday, Hawkins told the New York Times that, contrary to some mainstream headlines, the latest GOP platform does not represent a…