The former president spoke about abortion, and has not defined his position yet. However, it is expected to happen soon, since the issue is the most important in the electoral campaign.
He former US president Donald Trump He said on Sunday that he is favor of a ban federal of abortion after a certain number of weeks of pregnancy, without specifying how many, and with exceptions. leaving like this his posture is confusing about an important election campaign theme in the United States.
The former president declared that he would “soon” make a proposal on the number of weeks from which a ban should be implemented, when speaking on the television program “Fox News Sunday” after becoming the Republican nominee for November’s White House race.
The main campaign issue: the ban on abortion
The journalists questioned Trump about an article by The New York Times of February according to which He had said to his advisors He liked the idea of a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest or mother’s health, but that he hesitated to address it publicly so as not to alienate votes.
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In Fox did not specify at what point in the pregnancy He believed that abortions should be banned. “In a few weeks I will give a recommendation,” she simply stated. “I think my recommendation will be accepted”he added, and declared himself proud that the three justices he appointed to the Supreme Court they would have tilted that organization to the right.
Abortion: the end of a right in the United States
In 2022, he highest court of justice pusor end to the right to abortion, guaranteed at the federal level since 1973, leaving it up to the states to establish their own laws in this regard. Some states enacted near-total bans; others, like Maryland, enshrined it.
Numerous Conservatives hope a national ban could overturn laws like Maryland’s.
The re-election that Joe Biden seeks
He president joe biden, who will seek re-election in November, and his Democratic Partyperiodically remember that according to surveys the majority of Americans oppose a federal ban.
trump said on Sunday that he is aware that this is a thorny issue and that, to be electedor, it must at least ensure the right to abortion “in the three exceptions. If you don’t make the three exceptions, I think it is very, very difficult to get elected.”
He highlighted in this sense that in the 2022 midterm elections in the state of Pennsylvania, where exit polls showed that abortion was the most important issue for voters, a Republican gubernatorial candidate who strongly opposed abortion rights was defeated.
Source: Ambito
