Donald Trump said Monday that he wants to pass abortion law to U.S. states, remaining loyal to the jurisprudence and cautiously abandoning a nationwide ban while he remains the architect.
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“States decide either by vote or by legislation, or perhaps both. Whatever their decision is, it should have the force of law,” he said in a video posted on his Truth Community site, after months of back-and-forth on the matter.
As a re-nominee in November against Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump reversed the judiciary in June 2022 by appointing US Supreme Court justices that nullified the federal guarantee of rights. To have an abortion.
Since the decision gave 50 states full latitude to legislate in this area, about two dozen have banned or severely restricted access to abortion.
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The Republican explained in his video that “many (states) have different weeks” as the gestational limit for abortion. “Some people are more conservative than others, and that's just the way it is. At the end of the day, it's the will of the people that matters.
Donald Trump accused Democrats of supporting abortion until the last months of pregnancy and “death penalty even after birth.” Unsubstantiated claim.
In his four-minute video, the Republican presidential candidate in November did not mention the possibility of establishing a nationwide ban, preferring to maintain a certain caution on this highly electoral issue.
“room”
Abortion has been a battleground of the conservative movement for decades, but its ban has proven largely unpopular with the general American public in several recent elections.
Joe Biden never fails to poke fun at his rival's balancing act. “Trump has gotten himself into trouble,” the president said in a statement from his campaign team.
Donald Trump fears voters will hold him accountable in the presidential race over his “responsibility” for ending the federal guarantee of abortion rights, Joe Biden said. “Well, I have some news, Donald. It will be like this,” he said.
The Democratic campaign team released a clip on Monday condemning Donald Trump's role in the current state of abortion rights in America. The video tells the story of a Texan woman who was denied an abortion despite suffering a miscarriage at 18 weeks of pregnancy, and the aftermath of this denial.
The ACLU, a civil rights group, condemned the vagueness of Donald Trump's statements, accusing him of “trying to cover his game.”
Donald Trump's former vice president, deeply religious Mike Pence, called the billionaire's statements a “slap in the face” to the millions of anti-abortionists who voted for him in 2016 and 2020.
The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life, for its part, expressed its “deep disappointment.”
“In the face of the brutality of the abortion industry, unborn children and their mothers deserve national protection and protection,” its president, Marjorie Tannenfelser, declared in a press release.
Polls
In March, Donald Trump first hinted that he could support a national ban beyond 15 or 16 weeks.
But he also felt that the decision on this question was not up to the federal administration, warning against the electoral cost of an overly conservative stance.
Since the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling, conservatives have lost every referendum or ballot measure that would address the abortion issue.
It's usually even in states like Ohio or Kansas.
Democrats, for their part, are capitalizing on this hot topic, which has made them a winning machine — at least in local elections.
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's vice president, regularly travels to US campuses in hotly contested states to discuss abortion.
Democrats promoted referendums on abortion on the same day as the presidential election in several states that were decisive during this election (Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania).
