He republican candidate to the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, He stated this Monday that the restrictions on abortion rights should be left in the hands of the states. This is an effort to satisfy his more conservative base without alienating centrists on a highly controversial issue.
The clarification from Trump marks a turn by the virtual Republican presidential candidate towards the general election, after amendments to the constitutions of the Republican states of Kansas and Ohio protecting the right to abortion were approved by comfortable majorities, showing the unpopularity of restrictions on the practice.
Donald Trump’s opinion on abortion
“The states will determine it by vote or by law or perhaps both”, Trump said in a video published on his social network Truth in which he believes that what they decide should have the force of law.
He conservative candidate to the presidential elections in November, which will compete against Democrat Joe Bidenboasts of having achieved that the supreme court dynamite protection of the right to abortion having tilted the court to the right during his tenure. In 2022 Supreme Court left the possibility of legislating on abortion in the hands of the states. Since then, around twenty of them have banned or restricted it to the extreme.
Joe Biden’s opinion on abortion
Biden, favorable to the right to abortion despite being Catholic, insists that if Congress attempts to enact a ban federal he will veto it. In his statement, Trump does not mention a national abortion ban or say whether he would veto it.
Biden responded with a statement in which he assures that Trump “lies” and that, if he could, he would ban the termination of pregnancy at the federal level. The president believes that his Republican rival is in a mess and tries by all means to limit this matter from affecting him politically.
“Trump is entangled,” said. “He is – more than anyone in America – responsible for creating the cruelty and chaos” in which the United States is embroiled, she added.
Donald Trump’s change of heart on abortion
He republican wore undefined weeks clearly assumption on abortion so as not to burn his chances of re-election.
In February, The New York Times reported that Trump had told advisers that he favored banning abortion from 16 weeks of gestation on a federal level, but he avoided expressing it openly so as not to antagonize conservatives who want to ban it in an even shorter period of time.
The disagreement of Donald Trump’s opinion
He anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony he said he was “deeply disappointed” after the tycoon’s statement. Influential Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also disagrees with Trump because she believes that “there should be a national minimum” limit of 15 weeks.
From the ruling of 2022 part of the Republican Party is in favor of the Congress enacts a federal ban after the presidential elections.
The democrats have since won a series of referendums to access to abortion is a state law. FloridaTrump’s home state, is about to enact a six week limit on abortionbut will also hold a referendum in November to ask citizens if they want an amendment that allow abortion before the fetus is viable.
In his statement, Trump did not mention the Florida ban nor if in November he will vote for or against.
People’s opinions on abortion
A majority of Americans think that abortion should be legal in most casesaccording to surveys, and about half of states have measures in place to protect access.
Democrats describe Trump as architect of attacks on reproductive rights and they promise to restore protection nationwide if they regain control of Congress, where Republicans control the House of Representatives.
Republicans were punished in the 2022 midterm elections, in which some of your candidates they lost to rivals who supported abortion rights.
Trump did not clarify from how many weeks he believes voluntary termination of pregnancy should be prohibited but insisted that he is “firmly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest and (if endangered) the mother’s life.”
Source: Ambito
