Trump did back a federal abortion ban as president
Reply to Donald Trump’s Comments on Abortion: The Right Way to Protect the Law of the Land and the Laws of the State
Donald Trump does not speak from a position of conviction. He speaks only from self-obsession and does not speak from any belief. He certainly does not speak from anything we might recognize as reason; when he’s holding forth from a podium, even the most careful students of Trump the rhetorician will struggle to find the light of complex thought.
The only context that matters for Monday morning’s comments on abortion by Trump is his disinterest in the truth value of his words. In a direct-to-camera statement on Truth Social, the former president told his audience that he does not support a national ban on abortion. Trump thinks we have an abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint. Whatever the states decide is the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.”
This position is a departure from mainstream thinking. Nearly two-thirds of Americans support legal abortion in most or all cases — the constitutional status quo under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. To leave abortion rights up to the states is, as we’ve seen since the Supreme Court’s decision two years ago in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to give state legislatures broad discretion to restrict and limit the bodily autonomy of anyone within their borders.
The Biden Campaign has been Attacking Donald Trump on Able to Propose a Reply to a Question about the Arizona Proposed Proposed Amendment to the Affordable Care Act
After a shouted question about whether he would sign a ban, the presumptive Republican nominee shook his head and repeated “no” twice.
“Now the states have it and the states are putting out what they want. He said that it was the will of the people. Everybody wants that to happen, Florida and Arizona, so they’re likely going to change.
In the past, abortion rights have been able to win statewide ballot measures. In addition, abortion is popular with voters in state legislature elections. A question on abortion access will likely be on the ballot in both Florida and Arizona.
With that in mind, the Biden campaign has been attacking Trump on abortion rights throughout this campaign. The statement was released by the Biden campaign.
“Donald Trump is the one who is responsible for the chaos and suffering we are seeing right now, and he overturned the abortion law so it’s pretty amazing,” said communications director Michael Tyler.
