Former President Donald Trump talked about abortion on Sunday in an interview where he suggested he would push for abortion legislation that could get through Congress with the support of both Republicans and Democrats. While the political reality is that is an impossible task, Trump says he believes he can get both sides to agree on a bill, perhaps a 16-week abortion ban patterned after Europe’s laws.
There is essentially no compromise on abortion between pro-life Republicans who want to protect unborn babies and pro-abortion Democrats who want to kill them in abortions without limits and force taxpayers to fund ending human life. Ultimately, you can’t just kill half a baby.
The Dobbs decision, which finally allowed states to protect mothers and babies for the first time since Roe v. Wade in 1973, has created a patchwork of laws — where many red states protect unborn children starting at conception or a detectable heartbeat and blue states allow killing unborn children up to birth.
Trump has previously floated a 16-week ban that would allow pro-life states to continue protecting babies but at least offer some legal protection for unborn children in blue states — with federal law superseding their unlimited abortion agenda. Although he didn’t talk specifically about the 16-week ban this weekend, Trump referred to some sort of middle ground legislation in his new comments.
“Pretty soon, I’m going to be making a decision. And I would like to see if we could do that at all. I would like to see if we could make both sides happy,” Trump told Mediabuzz.
Trump said he would “sit down with both sides and negotiate a deal that everyone will be happy with.”
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But therein lies the rub. Radical pro-abortion Democrats like those in Congress will never settle for anything other than abortion on demand for 9 months. They have voted against a 20-week ban and won’t even support protecting babies who survive abortions from infanticide — which makes it incredibly unlikely that they would ever support such a bill.
Trump’s additional remarks almost make it clear that his attempt to find a compromise is meant to attract voters with a less stringent abortion position.
“If the Republicans spoke about it correctly, it never hurt me from the standpoint of elections. It hurt a lot of Republicans,” Trump said. “But I tell people, No. 1, you have to go with your heart. You have to go with your heart. But beyond that, you also have to get elected, and if you don’t have the three exceptions, I think it’s very, very hard to get elected.”
After the interview Trump’s campaign released an additional statement on abortion.
“President Trump appointed strong Constitutionalist federal judges and Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the decision back to the states, which others have tried to do for over 50 years,” campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
During his prior term in office, Trump crafted the most pro-life record of any president in history. His election would be a marked change from Biden, who is without a doubt the most pro-abortion president ever.
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