Donald Trump stated Tuesday that he would veto a federal abortion ban, after months of dodging questions on his abortion stance.
“Everybody is aware of I might not help a federal abortion ban, underneath any circumstances, and would, in reality, veto it, as a result of it’s as much as the states to determine based mostly on the need of their voters (the need of the folks!),” Trump wrote in an all-caps post on social media.
That is the primary time the GOP presidential nominee has absolutely and immediately answered the query of whether or not he would help a nationwide abortion ban for the reason that Supreme Courtroom repealed Roe v. Wade in 2022. Throughout the presidential debate final month, Trump refused to say whether or not he would help a nationwide ban regardless of being pressed a number of occasions by moderators and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Within the social media publish, Trump reiterated his help for exceptions to abortion bans together with for rape, incest and lifetime of the mom. He added that he doesn’t help “the Democrats radical place of late time period abortions” together with within the “seventh, eighth, or ninth month” and “the potential of execution of the newborn after start.” Trump has repeated the false rhetoric that Democrats help murdering newborns; murder is unlawful in all 50 states and no Democrats are calling for that to vary.
The previous president posted the message as his working mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), was requested about his stance on reproductive rights throughout the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening. Vance straight-up lied about his file on abortion, telling moderators that he by no means supported a federal abortion ban, though he did as not too long ago as 2022.
It’s onerous to take Trump at his phrase when he has such a protracted historical past of utmost feedback on abortion care. It was reported earlier this 12 months that Trump wouldn’t help a complete nationwide abortion ban, however presumably a 16-week nationwide abortion ban. He later denied the report and informed a gaggle of reporters that he wouldn’t signal a federal abortion ban.
However Trump has repeatedly boasted about his position in reversing federal abortion protections after nominating three of the conservative justices who have been essential in overturning the historic 1973 Roe resolution. The previous president additionally as soon as endorsed punishing ladies who get abortions with jail time. He’s surrounded himself with a few of the most excessive anti-abortion advocates in politics, together with Vance who has referred to as for federal restrictions on touring for abortion care and advocated for the surveillance of women’s menstrual cycles to forestall them from getting abortions.
“Donald Trump is scrambling to attempt to clear up his disastrous debate efficiency, when he refused thrice in entrance of 67 million viewers to decide to vetoing a nationwide abortion ban,” Sarafina Chitika, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz marketing campaign, stated in a press assertion.
Venture 2025, an excessive coverage agenda for a attainable second Trump time period, contains a number of draconian anti-abortion coverage proposals together with enacting the Comstock Act, a 150-year-old anti-obscenity regulation that if enforced would criminalize sending abortion tablets by mail and successfully create a backdoor nationwide abortion ban. Though Trump has tried to distance himself from the plan, a lot of his longtime allies are accountable for the 900-page doc.
