Published March 20, 2024
Former President Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion, but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because “you have to win elections.”
Abortion promises to be a galvanizing issue for some voters in the 2024 presidential election in which Trump will try to unseat Democrat President Joe Biden.
A call for a 15-week national ban is likely to displease both sides of the abortion debate, with conservative groups unhappy with what they view as an overly permissive time limit and abortion-rights activists opposing the idea of any kind of national ban.
The former Republican president, whose three conservative appointees to the Supreme Court secured the majority needed to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, has not been specific on whether he would sign a national ban into law.
In a call-in radio interview on Tuesday, he came close.
“The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15. And I’m thinking in terms of that. And it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable. But people are really, even hard-liners are agreeing, seems to be, 15 weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing at,” Trump said on the “Sid & Friends in the Morning” show on WABC.
Trump said he backed exceptions to a ban on abortion when it involved rape, incest or saving the life of the mother, which he said the vast majority of Republicans support.
Trump said he tells Republicans who push a harder line: “Here’s the problem, you have to win elections. And otherwise, you’d be right back where you started.”
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Published March 20, 2024
In an interview this week, former President Donald Trump signaled that he would back a national 15-week abortion ban.
Trump made the remarks in a radio interview with the “Sid & Friends in the Morning” show on WABC.
“We’re going to come up with a time — and maybe we could bring the country together on that issue,” Trump said in the interview.
“The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15. And I’m thinking in terms of that. And it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable. But people are really, even hard-liners are agreeing, seems to be, 15 weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing at.”
“Everybody agrees — you’ve heard this for years — all the legal scholars on both sides agree: It’s a state issue. It shouldn’t be a federal issue, it’s a state issue,” he also added.
Last week, reports broke that Trump, who is running against President Joe Biden in this year’s election, is “laser-focused” on the issue of abortion when it comes to his vice presidential pick, which Townhall
“The president understands it as a treacherous issue — one that you can actually trip up and fall on your face with,” a source told NBC News. The source added that Trump would most likely not risk picking “someone with a six-week ban in their discussions or someone without any commitment on the exceptions.”
“He’s concerned it will have a drag on the ticket if they’re seen as holding too staunch a position,” the source said.
