Trump’s Abortion Bothsidesism: Republican Criticizes Abortion Bans
Biden campaign unleashes devastating ad against former president
Watching his hopes of returning to the White House fade before his eyes, the Republican whose right-wing nominations to the US Supreme Court paved the way for national abortion rights to be upended now is singing a different tune.
Just days after he released a statement championing his role in overturning the decision which guaranteed access to abortion for American women for nearly half a century, Donald Trump found himself answering questions about the future of abortion in the United States.
In four years as president, Trump please his Republican base by installing three right-wing justices on the high court who struck down the landmark 1973 decision Roe v Wade.
However, that end to a national guarantee of abortion rights has become a potent issue for Democrats, and threatens to send droves of motivated anti-Trump voters to the polls in November.
The highest court in Arizona on Tuesday upheld a 160-year-old law that bans abortions and punishes doctors who provide them, saying the ban that existed before Arizona became a state can be enforced going forward.
And just a week ago, the Florida Supreme Court upheld strict abortion restrictions in that state while giving voters a say on the issue in November with a ballot initiative.
Now staring at the backlash to his anti-abortion efforts, Trump is trying to have it both ways, as he criticized the Arizona and Florida restrictions.
President Biden’s campaign unleashed a devastating political ad against Trump this week, in which a young Texas couple tell their story of the wife nearly losing her life — and possibly her future fertility — after she was sent home following a miscarriage because abortion restrictions in the state prevented doctors for giving her medical care.
The ad closes with the words, “Donald Trump did this.”
Trump agreed when was asked Tuesday if the Arizona decision went “too far.”
“Yeah, they did. And that’ll be straightened out. As you know it’s all about state’s rights. It’ll be straightened out,” Trump said. And I’m sure that the governor and everybody else are going bring it back to within reason and that will be taken care of, I think very quickly.”
He also expressed displeasure with the restrictions in his home state of Florida.
“Florida’s probably maybe get a change also,” Trump said. “See, it’s all of what the — it’s the will of the people. This is what I’ve been saying. It’s a perfect system.
“So for 52 years, people have wanted to end Roe v Wade to get it back to the states. We did that. It was an incredible thing, an incredible achievement. We did that. And now the states have it, and the states are putting out what they want. It’s the will of the people,” he said, despite the truth being that majorities of Americans supported Roe. “So Florida is probably going to change. Arizona is going to definitely change. Everybody wants that to happen. And you’re getting the will of the people. It’s been pretty amazing.”
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