Trump also criticizes Arizona’s strict abortion ban. He has previously pushed for legislation that would make abortion illegal throughout the United States.
In the United States, a former president and likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s abortion comments cause confusion.
When he was president, Trump expressed his support for a nationwide abortion ban, but now says he would not sign it as president.
Trump also says that The recent decision of the state of Arizona on the ban on abortion went too far. On Tuesday, Arizona implemented an abortion law created in 1864 that almost completely bans abortion.
The law allows abortion only if it is the only way to save the life of the pregnant woman.
According to CNN, Trump has previously taken the credit From the 2022 US Supreme Court decision that overturned a law guaranteeing abortion rights at the federal level.
Trump’s comments are confusing
When Trump said that he would give the states the power to decide, he at the same time accepted the liberal abortion right as well as the strictest abortion bans.
The defenders of both sides are now attacking him.
Supporters of the Democrats have long criticized Trump’s position on abortion, but now his contradictory statements have also aroused anger in the Republican Party and the anti-abortion movement close to it.
Susan B. Anthony Director of Pro-Life America Marjorie Dannenfelser criticized Trump in rare harsh words In an interview with Fox News.
The review continued in the organization’s own bulletin.
– We are deeply disappointed with President Trump’s position. Unborn children and their mothers deserve national protection from the brutal abortion industry, Dannenfelser said.
Dannenfelser’s comments are related to Trump’s policy speech a couple of days ago, where he said he wanted states to have the independent right to decide on their abortion policy.
Abortion rights are emerging as one of the most central issues in November’s presidential elections.