Twenty years ago, Donald Trump announced in a televised interview that he was completely pro-choice.
When he found it politically expedient while running for president as a Republican, he flip-flopped and said he was totally pro-life and called for any woman making the very personal, and often painful, choice to terminate a pregnancy, to be punished. The woman. Oh, and then he said not the woman.
Then he said that he would sign a bill calling for a nationwide ban on abortion after fifteen weeks.
After the backlash in the wake of the Arizona state supreme court outlawing all abortions (except for life of the mother) with not even exceptions for rape or incest, resurrecting an old law dating back to 1864 during the Civil War when the Southern half of the Arizona territory was slave territory, Arizona would not even become a state for 52 more years and women did not even have the right to vote, Trump said it should be a state-by-state decision, as if human rights should depend on which state you live in, except that Arizona was somehow wrong and would then correct it, before Democrats introduced a bill to repeal the 1864 law which the Republicans promptly blocked.
Oh, and it was a law that for the past two years Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has praised and said should take effect but now, in the wake of the backlash opposes.
Democrats in the Congress proposed national legislation to protect contraception and IVF fertility treatments that Republicans, including those that claimed to oppose the Alabama court ruling outlawing IVF, promptly blocked.
In any case, Trump stated that he was proud that he appointed the judges who outlawed abortion and took away women’s rights.
Trump is a political opportunist. Trump is a liar. He will do whatever is politically expedient. Whatever he says today, if a Republican House and Senate sends him a national abortion ban, he’ll sign it.
Twenty years ago, Donald Trump announced in a televised interview that he was completely pro-choice.
When he found it politically expedient while running for president as a Republican, he flip-flopped and said he was totally pro-life and called for any woman making the very personal, and often painful, choice to terminate a pregnancy, to be punished. The woman. Oh, and then he said not the woman.
Then he said that he would sign a bill calling for a nationwide ban on abortion after fifteen weeks.
After the backlash in the wake of the Arizona state supreme court outlawing all abortions (except for life of the mother) with not even exceptions for rape or incest, resurrecting an old law dating back to 1864 during the Civil War when the Southern half of the Arizona territory was slave territory, Arizona would not even become a state for 52 more years and women did not even have the right to vote, Trump said it should be a state-by-state decision, as if human rights should depend on which state you live in, except that Arizona was somehow wrong and would then correct it, before Democrats introduced a bill to repeal the 1864 law which the Republicans promptly blocked.
Oh, and it was a law that for the past two years Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has praised and said should take effect but now, in the wake of the backlash opposes.
Democrats in the Congress proposed national legislation to protect contraception and IVF fertility treatments that Republicans, including those that claimed to oppose the Alabama court ruling outlawing IVF, promptly blocked.
In any case, Trump stated that he was proud that he appointed the judges who outlawed abortion and took away women’s rights.
Trump is a political opportunist. Trump is a liar. He will do whatever is politically expedient. Whatever he says today, if a Republican House and Senate sends him a national abortion ban, he’ll sign it.