Posted on 09/09/2023 4:03:52 PM PDT by thegagline
Donald Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to revoke a constitutional right to abortion care, a landmark ruling that has upended abortion access for millions of Americans in the months that followed.
Within his one four-year term, the former president appointed three conservative justices to the nine-member panel, tilting the court’s ideological balance in a promised effort to achieve a long-held Republican goal of overturning the 1973 decision in Roe v Wade.
The conservative majority’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has proved unpopular with most Americans and has fuelled victories in several Democratic campaigns and ballot measures to protect abortion rights.
In remarks to a crowd of supporters at a South Dakota rally on 8 September, the former president – who once said “I’m the one that got rid of Roe v Wade” – admitted that the Supreme Court decision has “probably cost” the GOP politically.
“Last year, those justices bravely and incredibly ruled on something that everybody has wanted for decades,” Mr Trump said. “They ruled to end Roe v Wade. That was a big thing. And it’s probably cost us politically, because the other side got energised.”
Mr Trump, who has touted himself as the “most pro-life president in American history” while promising capital punishment against drug offenders and human traffickers, is among Republican candidates jockeying for the GOP’s 2024 nomination while navigating the post-Roe landscape of anti-abortion activism – and proposals for a national ban – against widespread opposition to anti-abortion laws.
He has previously called Ron DeSantis’s Florida ban on abortion access at six weeks of pregnancy “too harsh,” drawing a rare rebuke from an influential anti-abortion group. Mr Trump has avoided saying directly whether he would sign legislation to ban abortion nationally. ***
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I disagree.
It’s not political.
It’s totalitarianism.
And spiritual.
Both can be true. They are not exclusive of each other.
And your point is?
Federal Ban has got to be the dumbest idea. First and foremost it’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen. You barely got the Senate to approve Kavanaugh because he was too “radical”. Secondly, the Rats are waaaay more unified on the issue so once you try snd make it a federal issue they’ll just legalize it nationwide and all of the progress that has been made will instantly be lost. Discussion of a federal ban will have the opposite effect. State issue is smart, you can win state by state eventually.
Trump is right. The GOP loses on this issue consistently … partly because it refuses to take the gloves off and fight like they want to win. I have yet to hear a prominent political candidate come right out and say that legalized abortion is enshrined in the Democrat agenda because it’s designed to eradicate black babies.
I prefer God’s blessings to the approbation of humans, especially baby murdering ones.
Some stupid/colluding Republicans allowed the overturning of Roe v. Wade to be used as a cudgel against Republicans in the 2022 election. For 50 years Republicans have been saying that the overturning of Roe v. Wade would turn decisions about abortion back to the states. Every Republican should have been campaigning saying that.
No. You’re wrong.
That’s the nicest way to put it.
Maybe, but that is how it always should have been, the people electing people to represent their views on the subject, not constitutional amendments created from thin air by 5 unelected judges as was the case with Roe V Wade.
Yes it did cost us politically, but worth it.
I don’t say this to make a personal attack or accusation.
When we attempt to communicate a point to the extent that we devise an entire post to that end, the point itself should have a reasonable amount of substance.
Very well said.
It was the right thing to do, popular or unpopular does not matter.
So which Republican candidate is pro-choice and will to push to have Roe vs. Wade restored?
Stop reading - round file.
Sensible and true.
Trump being human and not a calculating political animal.
It is not a federal issue. It’s been turned back to the states and that is where it should remain.
Got him now Gaggy. Good work.
“the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to revoke a constitutional right to abortion care”
But that’s not what this Court said. It said the prior court erred in its Roe decision, which tells us there was never truly a constitutional right to abortion care.
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