This Friday, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately shared his support for a national 16-week abortion ban with expections in cases of rape, incest, or risk to a mother’s life. This is the most recent twist in the 2024 presidential candidate’s flip-flopping record on abortion. Though the Trump campaign claims that the article was “fake news”, the Biden administration was quick to use the opportunity to further portray Biden as the presidential nominee for abortion rights.
“Now, after being the one responsible for taking away women’s freedom, after being the one to put women’s lives in danger, after being the one who has unleashed all this cruelty and chaos all across America, Trump is running scared,” the president said in a statement Friday after the story was published.
In June 2023, former President Donald Trump stated that he was the “most pro-life president ever.” He was speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Gala on the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a decision he had largely influenced. His nomination of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court was ultimately what stripped abortion rights of all federal protections, leaving states with the power to decide over pregnant people’s right to choose.
According to TIME, just hours after the news broke that the historic ruling had been overturned on June 24, 2022, Trump sent out an email taking credit for the monumental moment himself:
“Today’s decision, which is the biggest WIN for LIFE in a generation, along with other decisions that have been announced recently, were only made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court,” he said.
Trump’s role in laying the groundwork for the current battle over abortion rights will be a pivotal topic going into the 2024 election.
But more recently, as democrats…
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