By Marisa Laudadio
6:00pm PDT, Apr 8, 2024
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Donald Trump lastly made a press release about his present emotions about abortion laws after promising to weigh in — and lawmakers, his former vice chairman, entertainers, speak present hosts and extra had sturdy emotions concerning the ex-POTUS’s stance.
In a prolonged April 8 video assertion that Trump shared on his Reality Social platform, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee claimed, amid some misstatements, that he thinks abortion rights needs to be left to the states. He didn’t endorse a nationwide restrict.
Learn on to see his feedback in full and to learn how different notable names are reacting to what Trump needed to say…
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On April 7, Donald Trump teased that he can be releasing his official place on abortion the next day. Here is what he stated in his April 7 Reality Social put up establishing the announcement:
“I shall be placing out my assertion on Abortion and Abortion Rights tomorrow morning. Republicans, and all others, should observe their hearts and minds, however do not forget that, like Ronald Reagan earlier than me, I, and most different Republicans, consider in EXCEPTIONS for Rape, Incest, and Lifetime of the Mom. Nice love and compassion should be proven when even fascinated by the topic of LIFE, however on the similar time we should use frequent sense in realizing that now we have an obligation to the salvation of our Nation, which is presently in critical DECLINE, TO WIN ELECTIONS, with out which we could have nothing apart from failure, dying, and destruction. We won’t let that occur. We’ll, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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On April 8, Donald Trump launched a video assertion discussing his present place on abortion. Right here it’s in full, as reported by The Hill:
“Underneath my management, the Republican Social gathering will all the time assist the creation of sturdy, thriving and wholesome American households. We need to make it simpler for moms and households to have infants, not more durable. That features supporting the provision of fertility therapies like IVF in each state in America. Just like the overwhelming majority of People, together with the overwhelming majority of Republicans, conservatives, Christians and pro-life People, I strongly assist the provision of IVF for {couples} who’re attempting to have a valuable child. What could possibly be extra stunning or higher than that.
“At the moment I am happy that the Alabama Legislature has acted in a short time and handed laws that preserves the provision of IVF in Alabama. They actually did a terrific and quick job. The Republican Social gathering ought to all the time be on the facet of the miracle of life and the facet of moms, fathers, their stunning infants, and that is what we’re. IVF is a vital a part of that, and our nice Republican Social gathering will all the time be with you in your quest for the final word pleasure in life.
“Many individuals have requested me what my place is on abortion and abortion rights, particularly since I used to be proudly the individual chargeable for the ending of one thing that every one authorized students, each side, needed and, actually, demanded be ended: Roe v. Wade. They needed it ended. It should be remembered that the Democrats are the unconventional ones on this place as a result of they assist abortion as much as and even past the ninth month. The idea of getting an abortion within the later months, and even execution after beginning — and that is precisely what it’s. The newborn is born, the newborn is executed after beginning — is unacceptable, and virtually everybody agrees with that.
“My view is now that now we have abortion the place all people needed it from a authorized standpoint. The states will decide by vote or laws or maybe each, and no matter they determine should be the regulation of the land. On this case, the regulation of the state. Many states shall be totally different. Many could have a special variety of weeks or some could have extra conservative than others, and that is what they are going to be. On the finish of the day that is all concerning the will of the individuals. It’s essential to observe your coronary heart, or in lots of circumstances your faith or your religion. Do what’s proper for your loved ones and do what’s proper for your self, do what’s to your kids, do what’s proper for our nation, and vote. So essential to vote. On the finish of the day it is all about will of the individuals. That is the place we’re proper now, and that is what we would like. The desire of the individuals.
“I need to thank the six justices — Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — unimaginable individuals, for having the braveness to permit this long-term, hard-fought battle to lastly finish. This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal fingers and introduced it into the hearts, minds and vote of the individuals in every state. It was actually one thing. Now it is as much as the states to do the proper factor.
“Like Ronald Reagan, I’m strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest and lifetime of the mom. It’s essential to observe your coronary heart on this difficulty, however keep in mind, it’s essential to additionally win elections to revive our tradition and in reality to have our nation, which is presently and really sadly a nation in decline. Our nation wants assist. It wants unity, it wants all of us to work intently collectively. Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, everybody. We now have to work collectively. We now have to convey our nation again from the brink, and that is the place it’s. It is on the brink. And we are going to. We’ll do it. I promise you, we are going to do it.
“All the time go by your coronary heart, however we should win. We now have to win. We’re a failing nation, however we generally is a failing nation not. We’ll make our nation nice. We’ll make our nation larger than ever earlier than. Thanks very a lot.”
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Donald Trump’s former vice chairman didn’t like what the ex-POTUS needed to say about abortion in his April 8 video assertion.
“President Trump’s retreat on the Proper to Life is a slap within the face to the thousands and thousands of pro-life People who voted for him in 2016 and 2020. By nominating and standing by the affirmation of conservative justices, the Trump-Pence Administration helped ship Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of historical past the place it belongs and gave the pro-life motion the chance to compassionately assist ladies and unborn kids. Within the landmark Dobbs determination, the Supreme Courtroom returned the query of abortion to the states and the American individuals,” former Vice President Mike Pence shared on X.
“The American individuals elect presidents, senators and congressmen, and a majority of People lengthy to see minimal nationwide protections for the unborn in federal regulation. However right this moment, too many Republican politicians are all too prepared to scrub their fingers of the battle for all times. Republicans win on life after we communicate the reality boldly and stand on the precept that everyone knows to be true — human life begins at conception and needs to be defended from womb to tomb,” Pence continued.
“Nevertheless a lot our Republican nominee or different candidates search to marginalize the reason for life, I do know pro-life People won’t ever relent till we see the sanctity of life restored to the middle of American regulation in each state on this nation,” he concluded.
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In his April 8 assertion, “Trump does rightfully acknowledge that abortion proper now is a large political loser for Republicans,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — a former director of strategic communications within the Trump White Home — stated on “The View.”
“I need to say clearly, I need Donald Trump to lose in November, no query. However what he is doing right here is definitely a little bit extra strategic than it could come off,” she defined. “Individuals had been pushing for him to say go along with a 15-week ban, that might be the compromise. The issue is the proper would say it was a betrayal as a result of 15 weeks is simply too lengthy. After which Democrats would be capable to say he supported a federal ban. Now he is punting duty to governors. So we’ll be speaking loads about Florida and this upcoming six-week ban. ‘That is Ron DeSantis’s drawback, that is not mine.’
“It is basic Trump, form of attempting to be all the pieces to anybody,” she continued. “And my warning is that this with voters: They’ve confirmed they will separate the Republican politician from their place on abortion. So in Ohio, Kansas and Kentucky, there’ve been poll initiatives to assist abortion rights and so they’ve supported it however then gone on to vote for Republicans on the exact same poll.”
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“Can I simply level out that usually after the ninth month, the newborn is born,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg stated on “The View” on April 8 in response to Donald Trump’s false declare that Democrats assist abortion “even past the ninth month.”
“You do additionally know that it’s towards the regulation previous fairly a bit in — way more than [he’s] conscious — however no person’s doing that,” she continued. “And [he’s] bragging about this. Fifty years, I’ve had this proper, and right here you have snatched this proper out of my fingers. You have taken my proper as a girl to make selections about myself and also you’re bragging to me and also you need me to provide you my vote?”
She additionally stated, “You aren’t obligated to have an abortion. Nobody is obligated to have an abortion. So that you by no means should have one. And I hope nobody ever has to have one. But when you end up ready the place you need to, i need to ensure that — and i am well past having youngsters — I need to make it possible for in case you determine that is what you have to do, I am going get behind you as a result of I do not know your life and in case you say that is what you want, that is what i will do. … It is no person’s enterprise, it is [between] you, your physician and God.”
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President Joe Biden issued a prolonged assertion after Donald Trump launched a video on April 8 taking credit score for overturning Roe v. Wade whereas additionally saying he now believes states ought to determine the abortion debate.
Right here is the complete assertion emailed by the Biden-Harris marketing campaign to Mediaite:
“Donald Trump made it clear as soon as once more right this moment that he’s — greater than anybody in America — the individual chargeable for ending Roe v. Wade. He’s — greater than anybody in America — chargeable for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America for the reason that Dobbs determination.
“Trump as soon as stated ladies should be punished for in search of reproductive well being care — and he is gotten his want. Girls are being turned away from emergency rooms, compelled to go to courtroom to hunt permission for the medical consideration they want, and left to journey tons of of miles for well being care. In states like Florida, abortion will probably quickly be unlawful earlier than many ladies know they’re pregnant. Due to Donald Trump, one in three ladies in America already reside below excessive and harmful bans that put their lives in danger and threaten docs with prosecution for doing their jobs. And that’s solely going to worsen. With all his empty phrases on fertility therapies, Trump would not let you know the MAGA Republicans he controls in Congress have put ahead payments that might ban fertility therapies and that the Speaker of the Home he empowered is without doubt one of the strongest supporters for a nationwide abortion ban within the nation. Let there be no phantasm. If Donald Trump is elected and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a nationwide abortion ban on the Resolute Desk, Trump will signal it into regulation.
“Here is what Donald Trump would not perceive: When he ripped away Roe v. Wade, he ripped away a basic proper for the ladies of America that the USA Supreme Courtroom had affirmed and reaffirmed for 50 years. As a basic proper, it did not matter the place you lived. It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of ladies had come to depend on that proper. Now we’re within the extraordinary place the place ladies right this moment have fewer rights than their moms and grandmothers. That has by no means occurred earlier than in America. And it can’t be allowed to face. I’m decided to revive the federal protections of Roe v. Wade. So it will not matter the place you reside in America: The basic proper to decide on for ladies will as soon as once more be the regulation of the land. In case you give me and Vice President Harris a Democratic Congress, that’s precisely what we are going to do.
“Trump is just mendacity. There was no groundswell of assist in America for overturning Roe. Actually, assist for Roe is larger right this moment in America than it has ever been. The true reality is Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to nominate a Courtroom that might eliminate Roe. And he needed to make good on that debt. So he did. It was by no means about public coverage or what was proper or what Trump believed. It was all the time about politics.
“Trump admits as a lot in his assertion right this moment. Having created the chaos of overturning Roe, he is attempting to say, ‘Oh, by no means thoughts. Do not punish me for that. I simply need to win.’
“Trump is scrambling. He is apprehensive that since he is the one chargeable for overturning Roe the voters will maintain him accountable in 2024. Effectively, I’ve information for Donald. They’ll. America was constructed on private freedom and liberty. So, there’s nothing extra un-American than having our private freedoms taken away. And that’s what Donald Trump has accomplished.
“As I’ve stated many occasions for the reason that Dobbs determination, Donald Trump and all these chargeable for overturning Roe haven’t got a clue concerning the energy of ladies in America. However they’re about to search out out.”
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“Something that [Donald Trump] says may be translated to the next, as a result of he would not have any ideas, he would not consider in something … so that you translate all the pieces he says to ‘please vote for me and put me within the White Home and preserve me out of Leavenworth [prison].’ He has no real interest in any of you, or us. He solely needs to remain out of jail now. … and People are going to go to the polls and eliminate him this yr. I consider that now…. I do not consider something he says.” —co-host Pleasure Behar on “The View”
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“Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina — all have abortion bans. Trump helps these bans. And needs ladies that disagree to be punished. It is sick.” –California’s Governor Gavin Newsom
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“He is a morally bankrupt individual. And I nonetheless do not perceive the evangelicals getting behind him, individuals of religion getting behind him, ladies getting behind him. And I truly do not perceive him on this social media put up [about abortion claiming] that every one authorized students agree with him. All authorized students don’t agree with you.” —co-host Sunny Hostin on “The View”
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“The largest factor he did was the Supreme Courtroom justices and overturning Roe v. Wade. As a result of proper now, after we speak concerning the six-week ban … in Georgia and Florida, that is truly the perfect insurance policies we’re seeing as a result of 14 states have full bans with only a few exceptions. So when he speaks concerning the regulation and a number of the authorized specialists, when [the right to an abortion] initially was established, there was some debate over whether or not the Supreme Courtroom justices needs to be legislating by one thing like that. However 50 years later, the settlement amongst many authorized students as properly is that [Roe v. Wade] was a precedent and near a super-precedent. That rolling it again for states feels like a nice thought till you see what the states need to do. So I feel individuals want to recollect this once they go to the poll bins. … My level right here is there are states the place ladies are going to wish this assist and be capable to have that selection.” —co-host Sara Haines on “The View”
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“Trump and excessive MAGA Republicans lied about Roe v. Wade after which ended it. Do not consider something they should say on the topic. Home Democrats will defend a girl’s freedom to make her personal reproductive healthcare selections.” —Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, on X