Former President Trump said Thursday that he has not yet decided on a specific number of weeks to ban abortions, after he reportedly privately suggested he liked the idea of banning abortions for 16 weeks. Ta.
“I’m hearing more and more that it’s going to take about 15 weeks. I haven’t decided yet,” President Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“We also put it back in the states where it belongs. A lot of states are taking a very strong stance,” he added, citing Kansas and Ohio.
“The number 15 is being mentioned. We don’t agree with any number. We’re going to take a look. We’re going to take a very polarizing issue and solve it so everyone can be happy.” “I want to make it happen,” Trump added.
The New York Times reported earlier this month that President Trump told advisers and allies that he supports a 16-week abortion ban that includes rape, incest and maternal life exceptions. Democrats immediately used the report as evidence to push for a nationwide abortion ban if President Trump were re-elected.
Trump, who is expected to be the Republican nominee in November, has repeatedly dodged the question over the past year about whether he would sign a national abortion ban if re-elected, calling Democrats “radical” and calling them abortion-prohibiting. He has been criticized for supporting the pregnancy. The former president blamed the Republican Party’s messaging on abortion as a cause for electoral battles in the 2022 midterm elections.
At the same time, President Trump said he was responsible for ending Roe v. Wade by appointing three conservative Supreme Court justices.
The former president on Thursday also called an Alabama court’s ruling that frozen embryos are human beings, creating uncertainty in access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, “very harsh.”
President Trump said one of the people who reached out to him on the issue was Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), who delivered the Republican response in the State of the Union address and who was his running mate. It’s surfacing.
“Katie Britt, a very fine young senator from Alabama, was very upset that my friends were coming up to her and almost attacking her,” Trump said. .
“And I said, please explain to me what the problem is, what it is,” Trump continued. “And we’re talking about IVF, so I said, ‘We want that.’ We want people to help. We are on the side of women. ”
Following the Alabama ruling, President Trump expressed support for IVF protections, and Republican lawmakers followed suit. But some Republican senators on Wednesday blocked efforts to pass legislation that would provide federal protections for access to in vitro fertilization.
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