Posted on 04/08/2024 12:23:15 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
Conservative groups backing former president Donald Trump in his re-election bid say they are "deeply disappointed" with his official position on abortion unveiled Monday, but it won't deter their support in November.
The former president and presumptive GOP nominee in a video posted on Truth Social Monday morning said he cemented his position on the controversial issue, saying that abortion access should be a states’ issue and didn’t endorse a national, federal limitation – like a 15-week ban.
Pro-life interest groups who have endorsed Trump expressed disappointment at his announcement, but it appears unlikely to sway their support in consideration of Trump’s overall stance compared to Biden’s extreme abortion policy.
"The reality of a stark choice between President Biden who supports abortion: any number, any reason, up until birth, all paid for by the taxpayer and President Trump: who gave us three Constitutionalist justices, 220 lower court judges, appointees who support life and the overturn of Roe v. Wade has my endorsement and support in November for President," said Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America (CWA), who said she "favors federal limits on abortion."
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Here is Trump saying in a radio interview that he supports a 15 week ban:
LOL, Axios?? They openly confessed that Trump was not committing to a federal abortion ban. Bad enough they ask him leading questions and twist his words right then and there.
So thanks for proving that Trump never “floated” anything at federal level. Never mind expressing your love of liberal sources. Opus?
I too, have been greatly disappointed in Trump’s ‘evolving’ policies on abortion. However, today, he should be applauded for finally appearing to settle on the right plan going forward - being the enforcement of individual state control over the issue. It’s quite a shocker, and we’ll see if he sticks to it, but let’s hope and pray so for now. Thanks.
No; he said he was thinking in terms of what people were agreeing on. And I don’t see in the context where that specifically applied at the federal level.
One thing that the liberal sources all admit specifically is that Trump has never at any time committed to a federal ban, nor was a federal ban an issue related to the overturn of Roe and the Dobbs decision.
I clearly understand about the Declaration and the Constitution. And I also believe it takes a changing of hearts and minds approach. I believe that’s best achieved through independent states rather than the Federal government edicts because it is largely controlled by atheist’s, one-worlders, leftists at so many deep state levels it isn’t funny. I firmly believe the Fed is our worst enemy at this point in time, and the only thing that might get ‘codified’ by this Congress is a complete “right-to-abortion” everywhere.
Politics is “the art of the possible”.
All that talking about abortion bans will accomplish is to guarantee a Dem victory. This has been demonstrated many times. And the Dems will vote to protect and subsidize abortion.
Or he wants to win the next election, you left that option off
Have more than a few business acquaintances that refused to vote for DJT over abortion, few them however have expressed some satisfaction with the current siaution and voting with your feet
I suspect he will pick up at least a couple percent of the female vote with this
You do not know me, or anything about me-I’m not an atheist, sir-I’m a conservative and a Catholic-not a cafeteria one like pope Frank and FJB, so keep you insults to yourself and don’t be a small person who is unable to handle a discussion in a civil manner. And MLK was not a communist, either. It i unfortunate that you can’t have your own way here, but that is not how this works...
I wonder how these people complaining feel about Texas enforcing its own border laws in opposition to the feds?
many people need to get over themselves, especially ones that claim to be Christian (ie: supposedly gave their life to Christ) many of them tend to be conservative in ways so I am coming from that view about this article/title.
If America’s Founding Fathers were God inspired in forming the current Constitution as so many of their writings suggest, to have states have the most say in people’s daily rights/choices, then why on earth do so many conservatives want the federal govt or president to try to push for a national solution to abortion and women who get pregnant and don’t want the child?
Follow God. Following your own wants on a matter like this, which are not in line with what He started in the USA, is to be outside of His plans and purposes.
the ALTERNATIVE is to educate men and women to got get themselves in situations where they even have to consider an abortion.
Like it or not, the Dobbs decision made clear the federal government has no role in this matter. The Constitution leaves the matter entirely to the states. Anyone campaigning on the promise of supporting federal laws on abortion, for or against, is dishonestly posturing for votes. If any such law passed, it would be struck down by the same court. Trump is just being honest with us. Anyone who advertises otherwise isn’t.
Leaving abortion to the states is exactly the argument pro life advocates have maintained since 1973.
SCOTUS exceeded its authority in the Roe v Wade decision, and that’s the point that needs to be made to the US public as loudly as possible so that it doesn’t come back the same, illegal way.
I would personally welcome a national ban on all abortions, but 50 years of propaganda and brainwashing has had the effect desired by the extreme left.
Leaving the issue to the states is the only politically viable solution.
Trump has made the only decision possible in today’s America.
The matter of continuous centralization, thus violation of the Bill of Rights and by extension the entire Constitution, has been the biggest problem of the last century, never mind this century.
I agree.
I don’t think it’s his advisers.
Correct. President Trump is a career businessman who at heart cares little about the culture wars, foreign affairs, etc. It’s fools errand to project onto him what you want him to be because he’s never going to be that.
I never projected that onto him. And I was bashed for saying as much. But it still doesn’t mean abortion, LGBT agenda, immigration, 2nd amendment rights, eminent domain, religious freedom etc. are important.
I guess the sticky problem is that those people living in their mother’s wombs are also American citizens too!
Also, my personal opinion is that if men have to support an unwanted child, women should carry that unwanted child to birth.
Fair is fair.
don’t think it’s right to say he doesn’t care about the culture wars. Look at his pageant.
Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban
Former President Donald J. Trump has told advisers and allies that he likes the idea of a 16-week national abortion ban with three exceptions, in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother, according to two people with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s deliberations.
Mr. Trump has studiously avoided taking a clear position on restrictions to abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the middle of 2022, galvanizing Democrats ahead of the midterm elections that year. He has said in private that he wants to wait until the Republican presidential primary contest is over to publicly discuss his views, because he doesn’t want to risk alienating social conservatives before he has secured the nomination, the two people said.
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