Here we go…..
This is NOT unexpected ….
Trump signalled this point of view LONG time ago….
He cautioned his party against joining the strict anti-abortion band wagon more than a year ago….
Then?
Getting beat up?
He danced around the issue for a short while…
Now seeing that abortion IS an issue that IS costing Republicans votes…
(State abortion support vote’s ALWAYS favour abortion access…. Knocking the Supreme’ s Alito 5 decision letting the state lawmakers decide access…Abortion favouring GOP candidate’s haven’t done much better)
His position on the issue WILL leave down ballot Republicans in a precarious place and on their own…
Oh?
The Anti-Abortion types ain’t happy AGAIN with his view which seems to be Donald Trump trying to crawl to the middle for the November election…
Double Oh?
He support’s IVF…..
Former President Donald Trump on Monday said abortion should be left to the states in the post-Roe era, declining to endorse any national limit on the procedure.
His announcement, shared on Truth Social, is likely to disappoint anti-abortion groups who hoped he would use his bully pulpit to endorse national restrictions on abortion, especially after his campaign floated a 15-week ban earlier this year. Trump instead said that it was “up to the states to do the right thing” on abortion, painting Democrats as “radical” on the issue.
“The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump said. “Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will [be] more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.”
The announcement highlights Trump’s recognition that abortion has dogged Republicans on the campaign trail since the fall of Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago — and his primary goal of winning the 2024 election. He has chided other Republicans for speaking “inaccurately” on abortion, intimating that severe restrictions have cost the GOP winnable elections. On Sunday night and again Monday morning he urged people to “follow their heart” or their religion but encouraged voters to remember the stakes.
“You must also win elections to restore our culture and, in fact, to save our country, which is currently and very sadly a nation in decline,” Trump said.
His comments drew a swift rebuke from one of the nation’s leading anti-abortion rights groups, which has urged Trump to endorse a 15-week federal law.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in a statement to POLITICO reiterated the group’s commitment to “defeat President Biden” and congressional Democrats, but condemned Trump’s decision.
“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” said Dannenfelser, who last week said she believed he would call for a 15-week national limit. “Saying the issue is ‘back to the states,’” Dannenfesler continued, “cedes the national debate to the Democrats who are working relentlessly to enact legislation mandating abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy.”
The former president began his message by stressing support for in vitro fertilization in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court decision earlier this year ruling that frozen embryos are children. That ruling caused a political backlash that had many Republicans scrambling for a politically palatable fix….
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A Fox News poll last month found that support for abortion being legal in all or most cases has risen sharply among voters since the fall of Roe, including among key demographics Trump needs to win in November, such as older Americans, self-identified conservatives, registered Republicans and white evangelical Christians. Republican support, for instance, increased from 24 percent to 36 percent in less than two years….
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Throughout the Republican presidential primary, Trump maintained that the issue was one for the states to decide, and even criticized states, like his own residence of Florida, that had approved six-week abortion bans….
Manu Raju
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Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s strongest backers, breaks with Trump over his abortion stance.
“I respectfully disagree with President Trump’s statement that abortion is a states’ rights issue. Dobbs does not require that conclusion legally and the pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child – not geography.