Former President Trump on Monday released his position on abortion for 2024, saying he favors states determining abortion, necessarily maintaining the prestige quo that has existed since the Supreme Court overturned abortion nationally in 2022.
“My view is that we now have an abortion where everybody is seeking it from a legal standpoint, states will do it by vote or law or maybe both,” Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social, his social networking site. they decide, it has to be the law of the land; in this case, the law of the state. “
President Biden’s campaign rejected a response, saying that despite Trump’s claim that he would let the states decide, he would support a national ban if in office. The Biden campaign followed up and ran an ad showing Texas. Woman who was denied an abortion, which supposedly prevented infection, after a miscarriage.
“Donald Trump did this,” he says.
“Because of Donald Trump, one in three American women already lives under excessive and harmful bans that endanger their lives and threaten doctors with lawsuits for doing their jobs,” Biden said in a statement. worse. “
But while his long-awaited announcement clarified how his crusade would address this debatable factor in an election year, Trump’s position is not as straightforward as it sounds. It has reignited the debate over how states have treated abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago.
In the 2022 Dobbs case, the Supreme Court overturned the precedent of nationwide abortion access, putting the force back on the states to address this contentious issue. Since then, states have taken a variety of steps to further limit or protect abortion access, and in many places, the war continues.
In several states, legislation banning abortion went into effect after the Dobbs decision.
Abortions are largely illegal in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Other states — Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming — have tried to limit abortion access to varying degrees.
In his announcement, Trump affirmed the combination of abortion rights resulting from the Supreme Court’s decision.
“A lot of states are going to be other, a lot of states are going to have another number of weeks or some are going to be more conservative than others and that’s what they’re going to be,” he said. At the end of the day, it all depends on the will of the people. You’ll have to stick to your center or, in many cases, your faith or faith.
But other state laws are different around the world, said Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of California.
“A two-state physical care delivery formula affects everybody,” Hicks said. “That’s why it’s so vital that policymakers dedicate themselves to protecting basic rights and reproductive freedom. There’s no way to say they give in to one state or the other,” because we’re all connected when it comes to fitnesscare.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the state can enforce its 1864 law that criminalizes abortion when a woman’s life is in danger. But Arizona for Abortion Access, a reproductive rights group, says it amassed enough signatures to include the consultation in the survey. November, leaving the choice to the voters.
California voters responded to the Dobbs resolution by overwhelmingly approving a proposal codifying abortion access into the state Constitution. The proposal garnered approximately 67 percent of the vote, establishing the “basic right of Californians to abortion and their basic right to or refuse contraception. “”.
In the first post-Dobbs abortion election, Kansas voted to defend the constitutional text establishing certain reproductive rights. But the fight didn’t end there. For the next two years, Republicans in the state legislature battled with Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly over outreach. protections.
Republicans in the House and Senate recently passed a bill that would require health care providers to ask patients why they have abortions and record their answers in a statewide database.
In Maryland, where abortion rights are already protected, state lawmakers raised the question of “reproductive freedom” in this year’s election over whether to include a provision guaranteeing safety in the state constitution.
In November, Ohio’s electorate overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that would create a state constitutional amendment that would protect an individual’s right to “contraception; fertility treatment; continue your own pregnancy; miscarriage care; and abortion. “
The amendment allows “abortion to be prohibited after fetal viability,” which is done on a case-by-case basis through the pregnant patient’s doctor.
In Florida, where Trump resides, the electorate will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights on the state charter in a poll scheduled for the November election. The initiative, which passed lightly after the state Supreme Court issued a 4-3 ruling approving the bill last week, calls for 60% passage.
The 2022 midterm elections, the first after the Dobbs resolution, were widely seen as a national referendum on abortion access. Polls have found that the abortion factor motivated many voters to vote midterm in 2022. And Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. they didn’t sweep Congress as they had hoped.
Many political observers saw the meager effects of the Republicans as evidence that Americans restored abortion rights. Since Roe v. Wade, Republican politicians have been divided over their messaging of what to do at the next abortion.
“The challenge is that we have a pro-life movement that has been the target of unilateral attacks for 50 years,” said Jon Fleischman, a GOP political strategist. “It’s become very clear that what’s missing is uniformity. “within the pro-life movement as to what the next step is. And then you see a broad war of words about where things deserve to happen now.
Reacting to Trump’s message on Monday, many Republicans have jumped into the national debate to advocate for even tougher measures.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R. S. C. ) posted on X that he disagreed with Trump and called for “a popular national minimum that restricts abortion to 15 weeks because the child is capable of experiencing pain, with exceptions for rape, incest, and death. “the mother. ” Trump responded with several posts ridiculing Graham on Truth Social, claiming that the senator was hurting the Republican Party by harping on the issue.
“A lot of smart Republicans have lost elections because of this issue, and other people like Lindsey Graham, who are relentless, are entrusting Democrats with their dream of the House, the Senate, and even the presidency,” Trump said.
“The federal government cannot abandon women and young people exploited through abortion. Leaving abortion policy in the hands of the states is not enough,” Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said in a statement. We are confident that the Trump administration will have a body of pro-life workers committed to pro-life policies, adding rights, limits on taxpayer investment in abortion, and protections for pro-lifers.
A vote released last week through the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 80 percent of U. S. adults (adding 94 percent of Democrats, 81 percent of independents, and 70 percent of Republicans) are women and their doctors, not lawmakers, who deserve to make decisions about abortion.
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