2024-04-08 14:39:01
Donald Trump said on Monday that he wanted to give American states a free hand to legislate on abortion, remaining faithful to jurisprudence of which he is the architect, while renouncing a national ban which might cost him dearly in the presidential election.
• Read also: Trump more ambiguous on his support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza
• Read also: Fundraising: Donald Trump asks his donors to pay $1M to sit next to him
• Read also: Trump compares himself to a “modern-day Mandela”
“States will determine by vote or by law, or perhaps both. Whatever their decision, it must have the force of law,” he said in a video published on his Truth Social platform, following months of back and forth on the subject.
As a candidate once more in November once morest Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump himself prides himself on having, through his appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, resulted in the reversal of jurisprudence of June 2022 which annulled the federal guarantee of the right to abortion.
Since this decision giving states full latitude to legislate in this area, around twenty have banned or severely restricted access to abortion.
“Many (states) will have a different number of weeks” as the pregnancy limit for an abortion, the Republican explained in his video Monday. “Some will be more conservative than others, and that’s how it is. At the end of the day, it is the will of the people that counts,” he said.
Donald Trump also accused Democrats of being in favor of abortion until the last months of pregnancy, and “even execution following birth”. An unfounded assertion.
In this four-minute long video, the Republican candidate for the November presidential election does not mention the possibility of establishing a nationwide ban, preferring to maintain a certain caution on this highly sensitive issue at the electoral level.
“Nightmarish”
Abortion has been a battleground of the conservative movement for several decades, but its ban has proven greatly unpopular with the general American public in several recent elections.
The Democratic camp did not fail to criticize the position of the former Republican president.
“Donald Trump supports every state-level ban on abortion, including bans without exceptions,” said Ammar Moussa, an official on Joe Biden’s campaign team, in response to the Republican’s video.
“And he brags regarding his role in creating this nightmare situation,” he added.
The anti-abortion association Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life expressed its “deep disappointment” with Donald Trump’s statements.
“The unborn and their mothers deserve to be defended and protected at the national level in the face of the brutality of the abortion industry,” declared its president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a press release.
In March, Donald Trump first indicated that he might support a national ban beyond 15 or 16 weeks.
But he also felt that it was not up to the federal administration to decide on these questions, warning once morest the electoral cost of an overly conservative position on this eminently sensitive subject.
Referendums
Since the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision, conservatives have lost every referendum or vote addressing the issue of abortion.
And this, even in states that are usually theirs, like Ohio or Kansas.
Democrats, for their part, are capitalizing on this hot topic, well aware that the issue has made them a winning machine — at least in local elections.
Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, regularly travels to American campuses in the most contested states in the election to discuss the subject.
“Across the country, extremists are attacking women’s access to health care and reproductive rights,” she once more denounced at the end of March in North Carolina, urging Americans to support Joe Biden on November 5 to protect access to abortion.
Across the country, Democrats have also encouraged the organization of mini-referendums on abortion in several decisive presidential states – Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania – on the same day as the election between Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
1712589015
#Cautious #abortion #Trump #American #states #legislate
