Last week, when Donald Trump started teasing a big abortion announcement, it felt similar to what he used to do with the famous “infrastructure week” — but about women’s bodies. For any of us who’ve even remotely followed Trump’s many different stances on abortion, trust me when I say none of us were holding our breath.
Perhaps Trump knows abortion is not shaping up to be the winning ticket Republicans thought it would be.
The former president, whose Supreme Court nominations while in office inarguably enabled Roe to be struck down and women’s reproductive rights rolled back, has been wildly inconsistent when it comes to taking a stand on the actual issue of abortion rights. His latest comments over the weekend, in which he suggested that abortion is a state’s rights issue, indicate that perhaps Trump knows abortion is not shaping up to be the winning ticket Republicans thought it would be.
For one, his statements contradict earlier lines from Trump, when he at times indicated that he would support a national abortion ban.
Fresh off Democrat Marilyn Lands flipping an Alabama state house seat running on abortion and IVF, Trump seems to have realized that overturning Roe might not actually help him get re-elected.
On Monday morning, after an “Apprentice”-style build up, Trump released his Truth Social video, in which he stated abortion issues should be left up to the states. Yes, the guy who installed three anti-choice justices, the guy who said “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who get illegal abortions” — that guy now says abortion should be left up to the states. Trump added in his video that he is “strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother,” and that “many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be.”
It’s clear that in his consistently unreliable stance on abortion rights,…
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