The two leading presidential candidates continue to highlight the stark differences

between them in key policy issues.

It's a perfect time for politics Monday.

Today with Tamara Keith of NPR and Leanne Caldwell of the Washington Post.

Amy Walter is away.

It's great to see you both.

Nice to start now with an issue we know Democrats have been leaning into.

When we saw former President Trump messaging on today that is abortion

rights he spoke at the Danbury Institute today it's an anti-abortion

rights conservative Christian group as compared abortion to child sacrifice as you

know this comes the same day that Republican senators Ted Cruz and Katie Britt introduced

a bill to protect IVF access, but that's a few days after they block legislation that would

enshrine access to contraception.

So, Tam, five months out from the election,

what is the Republican position on reproductive rights?

Well, it's complicated.

In fact, there's not a cohesive position and that's been a challenge

going back to when Dobbs overturned Roe versus Wade.

There are more conservative groups,

like the one that former President Trump

delivered a video message to earlier today

that would like to go as far as you can go.

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