Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mentioned he was leaning towards a 15-week nationwide ban on abortion however helps exceptions for rape, incest, and saving the lifetime of the mom as a result of “you must win elections.”
Abortion guarantees to be a galvanizing concern for some ladies voters within the 2024 presidential election wherein Trump will attempt to unseat Democratic President Joe Biden.
The previous Republican president, whose three right-wing appointees to the US Supreme Court docket secured the bulk wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, has not been particular on whether or not he would signal a nationwide ban into legislation.
In a call-in radio interview on Tuesday, he got here shut.
“The variety of weeks now, individuals are agreeing on 15. And I am considering when it comes to that. And it’ll come out to one thing that’s very cheap. However individuals are actually, even hard-liners are agreeing, appears to be, 15 weeks appears to be a quantity that individuals are agreeing at,” Trump mentioned on the “Sid & Pals within the Morning” present on WABC.
He mentioned he would make an announcement on the acceptable time.
Trump mentioned he backed exceptions to a ban on abortion when it concerned rape, incest, or saving the lifetime of the mom, which he mentioned the overwhelming majority of Republicans assist.
Trump pushes to win elections
Trump mentioned he tells Republicans who push a tougher line: “This is the issue, you must win elections. And in any other case, you would be proper again the place you began.”
The Biden marketing campaign has taken purpose at Republican curbs on reproductive rights in states after the Supreme Court docket overturned the Roe ruling that acknowledged a girl’s constitutional proper to abortion. Voter backlash was broadly credited with limiting Republican features within the congressional elections that adopted.
Republicans have issued restrictive abortion legal guidelines in practically two dozen states because the Supreme Court docket’s reversal of abortion rights.
Talking to reporters in Florida on Tuesday as he voted within the state’s major, Trump was requested what he considered a 16-week abortion ban. “We’ll be speaking about that quickly,” he responded.
The New York Instances reported final month that Trump has privately expressed assist for a 16-week abortion ban.
