Trump favors national abortion ban
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Making the subtext text:
Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure.
The Republican former president has taken credit for striking down a federally guaranteed right to abortion by appointing three U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. As he seeks the White House a third time, Trump has refrained from embracing any specific limit on the procedure, warning it could backfire politically and instead suggesting he would “negotiate” a policy on abortion that would include exceptions for cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother.
But in a radio interview Tuesday, Trump criticized Democrats for not endorsing a ban that would limit abortions in states that still allow the procedure.
“We’re going to come up with a time — and maybe we could bring the country together on that issue,” Trump said while calling into the “Sid & Friends in the Morning” show on WABC.
SPOILER: this will not bring the country together.
As bad as this would be, it is of course worse. Trump will sign any abortion ban Congress puts on his desk, whether it’s 15 weeks or 6. But even if it was the former it’s not a stable equilibrium because it lacks any coherent justification. Supporters of reproductive rights will continue to seek its repeal. Opponents of reproductive rights won’t be satisfied because it would permit most abortions to proceed in jurisdictions in which they’re otherwise legal. And even the squishy centrists who want compromise for the sake of compromise will find that the 15 week ban in practice mostly proscribes what they consider “good” abortions (women who face serious health complications, have nonviable fetuses, etc.) and will pretend to be surprised about the inevitable consequences of the legislation they favored.
Anway, “Trump supports national abortion ban now they he got Roe v. Wade overruled” needs to be at the center of the Democratic campaign from now until November.