Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA).
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign accused the presumptive Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump of “scrambling” on the issue of abortion after Trump announced that he supports states making their own abortion laws.
“Trump is scrambling,” Biden said, according to the campaign statement. “He’s worried that since he’s the one responsible for overturning Roe, the voters will hold him accountable in 2024.”
“Well, I have news for Donald: They will,” the statement continued. “America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done.”
These comments from the Biden campaign came shortly after Trump posted a video on Truth Social in which he said “the states will determine [abortion policies] by vote or legislation” and “this is all about the will of the people.” The former president said “now it’s up to the states to do the right thing.”
“Many states will be different,” Trump said. “Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative [policies] than others, and that’s what they will be.”
Trump’s statement also accused the Democratic Party of being extreme on abortion: “[They] are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.”
Biden calls for legal abortion nationwide
Biden’s statement reaffirmed his administration’s support for codifying into law the abortion rules that were in place under the now-defunct Roe v. Wade ruling. Such a law would prohibit states from enacting most pro-life policies and mandate legal abortion nationwide.
“As a fundamental right, it didn’t matter where you lived,” Biden said. “It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of women had come to rely on that right.”
Although Trump has never publicly backed a nationwide ban on abortion, the Biden campaign claimed that Republicans would pass “a national abortion ban” and that “Trump will sign it into law.”
Biden has become a staunch supporter of taxpayer-funded abortion nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In his 2025 budget proposal, Biden asked Congress to enshrine the former abortion standards into law and to repeal the law that prohibits federal agencies from directly funding abortion. He also requested more money for a program that has funneled millions of dollars into Planned Parenthood abortion facilities.
The Biden campaign has run several pro-abortion advertisements during the election that criticized Trump for appointing three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. The campaign also promotes federal laws that would block states from enacting pro-life laws.
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Trump is actually being consistent with the Dobbs Decision. The Supreme Court, given its current makeup, seems to think that abortion is an issue for the states. A national ban would not likely pass muster with this Court.
I wonder if he will also say that each state should determine for itself whether slavery should be permitted or not?
Some evils should be universally condemned.
We have two “evils” happening here.
Pres. Trump is saying that abortion’s availability should be decided by the States, not the Federal Government or the Supreme Court.
That comment has the potential for evil, as there will be states who will permit legal abortion for any reason right up through 9 months of gestation. But it also has the potential for good, as there will also be states, in all likelihood, many states, who ban abortion entirely or at least place very stringent limitations on who can receive an abortion, taking into account fetal age.
Pres. Biden has made it clear that abortion should be available in EVERY STATE for EVERY WOMAN for EVERY REASON and has also hinted that opposition to this could possibly be an appropriate reason to ban certain pro-life medical professionals and hospitals from continuing to offer medical care.
Which man has proposed the “greater evil?”
We need to be wise when we vote for POTUS in 2024. Voting for a third-party candidate who doesn’t have a chance of winning will, barring divine and miraculous intervention from God (which I hope will happen!) most likely mean re-electing Pres. Biden, who has made it clear that legal abortion for any reason in any state is near the top of his “”Must Do” list. I don’t know how Christians can live with the knowledge that their 3rd Party vote enabled such evil to happen in our country.
OK … so you’re fine with evil, as long as you can point to a greater evil than the one you have chosen?
That’s how we got here. Your two parties have each told themselves that the other guy’s evils were worse, whereas THEIR evil choices were necessary and minimal.
If you sell your soul, maybe you can get Trump into office. Even if it works, though, it won’t be worth it — not for you, and not for this country.
Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king or Egypt to all that trust in him.
It is uncharitable and false to accuse someone of being fine with evil when they are acting to minimize it the best way they know how.
The only way to vote for someone who is NOT the lesser of two evils is to write in Jesus. But I doubt He’d serve even if elected. Should everyone who is pro-life do so anyway, and guarantee that the only *effective* voters are pro-murder?
Universally condemning an evil is a good thing. Losing over 600,000 lives wasn’t the best way to end it. Other nations were able to accomplish the same thing without bloodshed or civil war.
State by state is better than where we were with Roe.
Suppose a man has decided to climb the north face of the Eiger. Halfway up, he realizes that this is stupidly dangerous and dangerously stupid, and he wishes he were back at the bottom again. Well, there’s a quick and easy way to get back to the bottom! Simply pushing himself off the cliff face, however, comes with some undesirable consequences. The best option for him is to spend several hours of hard, careful work to bring himself SAFELY back to the bottom. It might seem that just remaining where he is would be a compromise that avoids the immediate consequences of jumping down and the care and effort of climbing down, and it might well be necessary for a few moments of rest and planning. A climber who advocates it as an ideal, final solution, however, has taken leave of his senses.
It seems to me that Trump is right on this. Maybe that is why Biden is coming on so strong with his ridiculing/demonization of Trump.
1) Pathetic
2) Predictable
Next question.
I think Mr. Trump managed to take some wind out of the Democrat scare campaign.
There may very well be a federal limit on feticides one day & Donald Trump in office would make that more likely than another Biden administration would. But for now Mr. Trump’s holding his cards closely.