In a social media post early Saturday morning, former President Trump vowed to “protect women like never before” if elected and ensure “powerful exceptions” to abortion are adopted across the country.
“Women are poorer than four years ago, in worse health than four years ago, less safe on the streets than four years ago, more depressed and unhappy than four years ago, and less optimistic and confident about the future than four years ago,” Trump said in a lengthy late-night letter to his Truth Social.
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“I will resolve all of this quickly and finally this national nightmare will end,” he said. “Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free!”
Polls have consistently shown Trump doing well against Vice President Kamala Harris among most demographic groups but struggling with women, many of whom have expressed disapproval of the three justices Trump has picked for the Supreme Court. Roe v. WadeIt provided abortion protection under federal law.
“Abortion will no longer be a consideration for women because abortion will remain a matter of state and national vote, as it always has been,” Trump wrote. “And while there will be strong exceptions — like those Ronald Reagan called for in cases of rape, incest and for the life of the mother — there will be no late-term abortions in the 7th, 8th and 9th months of pregnancy, or the execution of babies after birth, as Democrats have called for.”
“I'm going to protect women like never before,” he said, “so that they can finally feel healthy, hopeful, safe and secure.”
Trump added, “Their life will be happy and beautiful and wonderful again!”
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Uniondale, New York. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
The former president's move to win over women's votes came after Vice President Harris campaigned in Georgia, speaking about the impact of what her campaign called “Trump's extreme anti-abortion laws.”
“After a week of VP Harris speaking about the impact of Trump's abortion ban and the impact this election will have on women's lives, Donald Trump became enraged and ranted about women on the phone late at night,” Sarafina Chitica, a spokesperson for Harris-Waltz 2024, said in response to Trump's Truth Social post. “After taking away our reproductive freedom, now he's trying to tell us how we should think.”
“Trump thinks he can control women, but he's wrong,” Chitika said.
Her campaign said she “fears that women across this country will vote as if their lives and freedoms depend on it, which they do.”
“Women are not stupid, and we view President Trump's Project 2025 policies as an extreme plan to ban abortion nationwide and threaten access to IVF and birth control,” Chitika said. “And we will vote that way in November.”
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But Caroline Leavitt, national spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital that Harris and President Joe Biden were endangering women's lives, listing the names of women who have been killed by illegal immigrants.
“President Trump is right. Kamala may want to be the first woman president, but she has made women's lives more dangerous and more unaffordable,” Leavitt said. “If Kamala cared about protecting women, she would close the border and stop rapists and murderers who prey on young women and girls from entering our country. Kamala never said the names of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungualley or Rachel Morin. President Trump honored their lives and comforted their grieving families.”
Levitt added, “If women want their families to be safe, secure and thriving, President Trump is the only man they can vote for.”
As for Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a Republican administration, Leavitt reiterated his claim that Trump did not commission it and has no plans to implement it if elected.
“President Trump has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with Project 2025,” Leavitt said, adding that “Kamala's team is lying because they're losing.”
Democratic presidential candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 22, 2024. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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Despite President Trump repeatedly stating that he would never support a nationwide abortion ban and believing there should be exceptions to abortion, such as in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother, Harris continues to insist that President Trump would introduce a nationwide abortion ban that would allow no exceptions.
Harris declined to say whether she would support limiting abortion up to birth.
Trump has vowed that if elected president, he will “not block” women's access to abortion pills or abortion treatments.
