Trump to allow states to punish women and doctors for abortions

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Former President Donald Trump maintained in a new interview that he'd leave it up to individual states whether or not they want to monitor women's pregnancies to determine if someone gets an abortion after their state's legal ban and then prosecute them.

Asked whether he's comfortable with states prosecuting women who have abortions after the legal limit, which now varies widely by state, Trump told Time magazine in a cover story published Tuesday: "It's irrelevant whether I'm comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions."

Time also asked, "Do you think states should monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion after the ban?"

"I think they might do that. ... You'll have to speak to the individual states," Trump responded.

When previously asked if doctors should be punished for performing abortions, Trump had said it was a "state's rights issue."

Trump also repeatedly dodged a question from Time about whether he'd vote for an abortion referendum in Florida in November that would overturn the state's six-week abortion ban -- even as he doubled down on his previous comment that he believes that time frame is "too severe."

However, he has also repeatedly touted his role in ending Roe by naming three of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who overruled it in 2022.

And he has called out some abortion policies he disagrees with, including saying a Civil War-era ban in Arizona, which was recently ruled to be enforceable, goes too far.

Speaking with Time, Trump declined to "commit to" vetoing a federal abortion ban as president if one were passed by Congress, though he said before that he wouldn't sign such a law.

"I won't have to commit to it because it'll never -- No. 1, it'll never happen, No. 2, it's about states' rights," he told Time. "You don't want to go back into the federal government. This was all about getting out of the federal government."

Trump declined, too, to say whether he'd veto a federal law that would outlaw abortion pills like mifepristone, saying states are now left to make such decisions. He said he has "strong views" on the issue, however, and will "probably" release those "over the next week."

"I'm leaving everything up to the states. The states are going to be different. Some will say yes. Some will say no. Texas is different than Ohio," he said.

The rival Biden campaign, and the president himself, have seized on Trump's role in overruling Roe and in abortion bans across the country. Trump's shift in rhetoric has also drawn some criticism from abortion opponents who contend he's being "inconsistent."

"It shouldn't matter where in America you live," Biden said in a speech last week. "This isn't about states' rights, this is about women's rights."

Biden's campaign manager slammed Trump's comments to Time on Tuesday, saying in a statement, "Simply put: November's election will determine whether women in the United States have reproductive freedom, or whether Trump's new government will continue its assault to control women's health care decisions."

 

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-individual-states-prosecute-women-abortions/story?id=109783701

[Onlygaga 1,747]

[GAYHEMikey 8,237]

MEN. SHOULD. NOT. MAKE. LAWS. ABOUT. WOMENS. BODIES. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,052]

Remember when he pretended to be moderate abt abortion for like 5 seconds lmao

[gemein3 1,449]

This is absolutely insanity. None of this is real lmao. 

And I don’t even mean Trump — we all know he’s insane and what he wants/will do if he wins.   

But whyyy the FU** is Times magazine giving him a front page cover and interviewing him!? Airing these horrific “policies” by a deranged old man who’s charged with over 90 felony counts, a rapist, a fraud, and of course…

…illegally and shortly after, violently, tried to overthrow our government. The rest of us would be rotting in prison by now. Trump? Galavants around the country lavishly running for president like a martyr, escaping the realities we are forced to live by, and gets primetime interviews / magazine covers to distort the absolute threat he poses. 
 

[r4therupbeat 1,587]

what's crazy is that nor him or Biden have power over the Supreme Court or each individual state that do whatever the f they want (meaning red states and the SC that is in its majority republicans),

[Morphine Prince 109,670]

The fact they are giving this man a platform….