{"id":1048054,"date":"2024-09-12T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048054"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:18:54","slug":"donald-trumps-support-for-a-national-abortion-ban-was-his-clearest-non-answer-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trumps-support-for-a-national-abortion-ban-was-his-clearest-non-answer-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Support for a National Abortion Ban Was His Clearest Non-Answer of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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22 states already have Trump abortion bans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump made it clear Tuesday night that he owns the 22<\/a> extreme abortion bans throughout the country that have left women in perilous medical emergencies and facing mounting barriers to accessing the health care they need. He\u2019s not done yet \u2013 when asked multiple times on the debate stage, Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban as president. And his running mate, JD Vance, knows that Trump would sign one into law \u2013 even if Trump won\u2019t admit it on the debate stage. Vice President Harris made it clear: \u201cIf Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.\u201d<\/a> Trump can evade, but he intends to ban abortion nationwide, just as he intends to vote to maintain Florida\u2019s extreme abortion ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Trump\u2019s refusal to denounce a nationwide abortion ban,<\/em> DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy issued the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTuesday night, Americans heard two starkly different visions for America. Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 vision will chart a new way forward and protect the freedoms \u2013 including reproductive freedoms \u2013 of every American. In contrast, Donald Trump peddled a vision that would use his Project 2025 agenda to build on his dangerous repeal of Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Voters heard Trump again brag about ripping away federal reproductive protections from Americans, while refusing to commit to vetoing an extreme national abortion ban if he reaches the White House. Twenty-two states have Trump abortion bans in effect, and Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda will ban abortion nationwide \u2013 forcing women across the country to experience the anti-freedom reality Trump made possible in these states since his overturn of Roe<\/em>. Tuesday night, Trump reaffirmed he is proud of his abortion bans. There is only one candidate in this race who is a clear and vocal champion of women\u2019s reproductive rights: Vice President Harris. As president, she will restore and protect women\u2019s freedoms and their right to make their own personal health care decisions.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tuesday\u2019s debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to vetoing a nationwide abortion ban if elected president. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cTrump Won\u2019t Say Whether He Would Veto a National Abortion Ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump refuses to say he would veto a national abortion ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cTrump Refuses To Answer Whether He\u2019d Veto A National Abortion Ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because Trump and Vance\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would rip away Americans\u2019 basic freedoms by banning abortion nationwide and punishing women.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025 takes direct aim at abortion pills, indicates that fetuses should have legal rights, and seeks to expand \u2018surveillance\u2019 of abortion while eliminating government support for the procedure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cAs president, Trump enacted several policies that made it more difficult for people, particularly the working class and the poor, to obtain contraception \u2026 Conservative allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November. Their \u2018Project 2025\u2019 blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThere of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it\u2019s very important.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance And Project 2025 Want To Use This 19th Century Law To Ban Abortion\u2014Without Congress\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cVance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cVance is on record supporting these [Project 2025] ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists \u2018who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance said in 2022 he \u2018would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would even allow states to monitor women\u2019s pregnancies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cThere is evidence that, if elected, Trump<\/strong> and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance<\/strong> (R-Ohio), would permit or even encourage the type of Orwellian surveillance described in Project 2025<\/strong>. For one, Trump has already expressed clear disinterest in preventing conservative states from enacting draconian policies on abortion and pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cElsewhere, [Project 2025 author Roger] Severino complains that the CDC\u2019s \u2018abortion surveillance\u2019 system is \u2018woefully inadequate,\u2019 and proposes turning the agency into a kind of snitch network that would collect data about who had abortions and where \u2014 and punish any states that refuse to share that information.<\/strong> \u2018Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother\u2019s state of residence, and by what method,\u2019 Severino writes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump called the restrictive and cruel patchwork of abortion bans in effect across the country \u201ca beautiful thing to watch.\u201d<\/strong>
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The Hill<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Trump on Wednesday said it was \u2018a beautiful thing to watch\u2019 <\/strong>as individual states passed patchwork abortion laws, some more restrictive than others, and suggested it could unify the country even as Democrats use the issue to drive turnout in elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReproductive rights have been front and center politically in the two years since the conservative Supreme Court majority ended Roe v. Wade, with some states enshrining abortion rights and others enacting restrictive laws that effectively ban the procedure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018And it\u2019s taken it off the shoulders of the federal government \u2026 The people are deciding. And in many ways, it\u2019s a beautiful thing to watch.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump both took credit for ending Roe v. Wade through the appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court<\/strong> and attacked Democrats as \u2018the radicals\u2019 on the issue of abortion for not supporting limits on late-term abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The states are all deciding right now. And I think it\u2019s working the way that people wanted it to work,\u2019 Trump said. \u2018And it\u2019s going to bring the country together on an issue that was very, very bad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22 states already have Trump abortion bans Donald Trump made it clear Tuesday night that he owns the 22 extreme abortion bans throughout the country that have left women in perilous medical emergencies and facing mounting barriers to accessing the health care they need. 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