Donald Trump is now open to a 15-week abortion ban. Evidence shows that Donald Trump is all over the place when it comes to abortion, and he illustrates how he does not care about women or women’s reproductive rights. Sharon Reed and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report.
Former President Donald Trump is suggesting he would be open to supporting a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is endangered.
In a radio interview Tuesday with Sid Rosenberg on WABC, Trump weighed in on what he thinks would be an appropriate limit on the procedure after he touted the Supreme Court’s overturning in 2022 of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling — which came after he appointed three conservative justices to the court.
“The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable,” he said. “But people are really — even hard-liners are agreeing — seems to be 15 weeks, seems to be a number that people are agreeing at.”
Trump said that he would make an announcement on what specific limit on abortion he would support “at the appropriate time” before going on to say that it should be left to the states to decide.
“The issue of abortion, we brought it back to the states,” Trump said, referring to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. “And everybody agrees, you’ve heard this for years, all the legal scholars on both sides agree, it’s a state issue. It shouldn’t be a federal issue, it’s a state issue.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
In response to Trump’s remarks, the Biden campaign shared a statement from Amanda Zurawski, a woman who is suing Texas over its abortion ban. Zurawski said she nearly died in 2022 after doctors initially declined to perform an abortion as she suffered severe complications 18 weeks into her pregnancy. Doctors eventually gave her an abortion when her health deteriorated.
“My family has been forever altered by the nightmare that Donald Trump created by overturning Roe. I nearly died because my doctor could not give me the care I needed — and my ability to have children in the future has been forever compromised by the damage that was caused,” she said.
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