2024-04-15 07:12:24
The ex-president Donald Trump said that the state of Arizona went too far with its ban on abortion based on a law of the XIX centurybut defended the role he played during his government in promoting the end of the right to abortion in USA.
The Republican candidate made the new statements on this hot topic after an event in the city of Atlanta, in Georgia, when a journalist asked him if he believed that Arizona had gone “too far” by maintaining a near-total ban on abortion. Trump agreed: “Yes, they did, and that will be fixed,” he said.
“I am sure that the governor (of the Democratic Party) and everyone else will come back to reason with (the Arizona Court), and I think that will be resolved very quickly,” he added.
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The Supreme Court This week, Arizona reinstated an anti-abortion law that dates back to the 19th century and prohibits the interruption of pregnancy in almost any circumstance, further polarizing the tense scenario in the United States ahead of the presidential elections next November.
His statements come two days after he confused some conservative sectors by publishing a message about it on social networks, in which he did not mention the national ban on abortion.
Trump has sent mixed signals for months, frustrating core supporters who staunchly oppose abortion while trying to avoid expressing strong support for the most sweeping bans that were rejected by voters at the polls.
In his video message on Monday, he asserted that the right to abortion should be left in the hands of the states.
Trump, who during his Presidency (2017-2021) appointed three conservative justices to the United States Supreme Court, tried to take credit for the “incredible” ruling by the highest court in 2022, which ended almost half a century of protections of the right to abortion throughout the country.
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“We did it, and now the states have it, and the states are deciding what they want,” he said. “It is the will of the people,” she stressed.
Since the Supreme Court left it up to states to legislate abortion, some Republican-led states have enacted near-total bans. Furthermore, there is a powerful movement in the Republican Party that pushes for a total impediment at the national level.
Since the decision of the highest court, twenty states have prohibited or restricted the right to the extreme.
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