The president said abortion should be legal following rape or incest — exceptions not allowed under Alabama’s new law.
By Amy Goldstein and Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow May 19 at 4:34 PM President Trump has joined a chorus of Republicans distancing themselves from new state laws banning the vast majority of abortions, though he emphasized what he called a “strongly pro-life” stance he has held throughout his time in the White House.
In aligning with the memory of the popular GOP figure, Trump disregarded that Reagan had, as California governor, signed a liberal abortion law. And as president, Reagan nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court the first female justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, who voted to uphold Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, in later challenges to the ruling.
On Sunday, several of nearly two dozen Democrats running for their party’s nomination chided the GOP for inserting government into a decision they contend women should be free to make — and that public opinion supports. Two other 2020 contenders, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and Sen. Bernie Sanders both said a woman should be free to decide whether to have an abortion — in consultation, if she wants, with her doctor and people close to her. “What people are doing, sadly, is creating a political issue out of a medical issue,” Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
In his late-night tweets, Trump also cast his position on abortion in the context of his effort to win a second term. “We must stick together and Win for Life in 2020,” the president wrote. “If we are foolish and do not stay UNITED as one, all of our hard fought gains for Life can, and will, rapidly disappear.”
Since his campaign, Trump has championed the causes of Christian conservatives, including their opposition to abortion, even though he has not always held that belief. Two decades ago, he told an interviewer that he was “very pro-choice,” saying, “I hate the concept of abortion . . . but you still — I just believe in choice.”
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