A Major Anti-Choice Group Is 'Disappointed' With Trump's Abortion Announcement
Source: Huff Post
Apr 8, 2024, 11:50 AM EDT
Former President Donald Trumps big abortion announcement Monday landed like a ton of bricks with the ultra-conservative, anti-choice groups and activists who hope to see a national 15-week abortion ban.
Trump revealed Monday he believes reproductive rights should be left up to the states, effectively signaling he wont come out in favor of a national abortion ban between now and the election. Trumps position angered anti-choice groups that feel empowered to call for a national ban on the procedure following the rollback of reproductive rights in 2022.
We are deeply disappointed in President Trumps position. Unborn children and their mothers deserve national protections and national advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry. The Dobbs decision clearly allows both states and Congress to act, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said in a statement. The group nonetheless reaffirmed its commitment to beating Democrats in December without explicitly saying it would work to elect Trump.
With lives on the line, SBA Pro-Life America and the pro-life grassroots will work tirelessly to defeat President Biden and extreme congressional Democrats, Dannenfelser said. Dannenfelsers group, which reluctantly backed Trump for president in 2016, has previously said it would not support candidates who dont endorse a national 15-week abortion ban. Trump, during the primary, reportedly entertained but ultimately abandoned the idea of supporting a 16-week ban to placate social conservatives.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-national-abortion-ban_n_6613f067e4b0d81853f9e84d
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,141 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,378 posts)abortion ban?
I dont think so . . .
FakeNoose
(33,003 posts)Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
... and she would have NEVER allowed these assholes to use her name in connection with anything as oppressive as "Pro-Life America." I hope someone (perhaps a surviving relative?) has the standing to sue this group and make them stop using Ms. Anthony's name.
It makes me sick just to read about this group and their anti-democratic hateful activities.
SunSeeker
(51,898 posts)Which makes it even more weird to put her name to a forced birth organization.
apnu
(8,765 posts)As he does fail at most things.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,209 posts)Donald Trump said hed come up with an abortion position that would make both sides happy. He instead released a new statement that made no one happy.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-tries-fails-bring-abortion-views-sharp-focus-rcna146833
Evidently, hes made a decision. NBC News reported:
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that abortion laws should be left to the states, many of which have enacted new restrictions since he appointed Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn federal protections for the procedure.
Specifically, Trump said states "will determine" whether or not to impose abortion bans.
Roughly nine hours before releasing his four-and-a-half-minute video to his social media platform, the former president sent a pretty clear signal to his base that he wouldnt come right out and endorse a new national abortion ban to be imposed at the federal level. We must use common sense in realizing that we have an obligation to the salvation of our Nation ... TO WIN ELECTIONS, Trump wrote last night.....
For the first time in decades, has the former president come up with a vision in which Americans can put the abortion fight behind us? Not even close
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)riversedge
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