(OPINION) Former President Donald Trump said Monday it’d be best if states handled abortion the way their constituents want.
“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,” he said on the social media platform Truth Social. “At the end of the day, it’s all about the will of the people.”
In his announcement on the social media platform Truth Social, the Republican presidential candidate said he’s in favor of exceptions to abortion restrictions in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. He also said he “strongly” supports fertility treatments.
Trump repeated debunked claims that most legal scholars wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and that Democrats support the “execution” of viable fetuses.
“My view is now that we have an abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both,” Trump said. “And whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state.”
Trump, in his video, said he was “proudly the person responsible” for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to an abortion.
In a statement of his own that criticized Trump’s comments, Biden agreed with Trump on this one matter.
“He is — more than anyone in America — responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision,” Biden wrote, referencing the June 2022 court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Trump once said women must be punished for seeking reproductive health care — and he’s gotten his wish. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and left to travel hundreds of miles for health care.”
