Part of my email from Catholic.com:
“Trump recommended his own sister,
> Maryanne Trump Berry, for the Supreme Court. She’s the federal
> judge who overturned New Jersey’s ban on grisly partial-birth
> abortions. The next President may choose as many as three or more
> new justices. Trump’s suggestion of his pro-abortion sister as an
> example ought to worry anyone who cares about the Court. And
> let’s not forget he once said Oprah would make a great Vice
> President.”
The remark about his sister occured in the first weeks of his campaign; the man had not made a serious run for the presidency before (although people have been asking him to for the past 25 years), he isn't any sort of government official at this time and has never been one, and his remark most certainly wasn't on the level of a presidential nomination. He made an offhand "atta girl" or "shout out" from family pride to his sister, thinking that others would recognize that his family isn't just a bunch of yahoos. He said it while also mentioning an uncle who was an MIT professor.
Trump has since recanted of the remark months and months ago and has named others about whom he is more serious.
Unlike many people who go through life holding rigidly to an ideology, he is a person who does have basic principles, but is also willing and able to adapt to new circumstances in order to achieve broad and deep goals, recognizing the need to form a coalition of agreement from many quarters. He has vowed to serve the American people and be responsive to their needs. Abortion was never a deep personal concern of his, but as president, he would work with his DOJ to evaluate its impact on the US and push for what I believe will be incremental changes in law to eliminate the extremism of the Democrat party and the leftsts about abortion.
I do not think any one of the candidates, including Cruz, can or would effectively eliminate legal abortion altogether, nor would today's populace support a complete prohibiition. Reasonable people want to see a great reduction in the number of abortions and a possible elimination of the ghastlier forms, such as later term and certainly partial-birth abortion or allowing abortion surviving infants to die in a back room because their mothers and doctors want them dead. Churches bear a responsibility for ruling the hearts and minds of their people and educating the young so that abortion does not occur among their membership. But we do not live in a theocracy and cannot force our Christian views on every American.
Trump, who is not a Catholic, nevertheless has grown with the issue and has steadily over the years grown to renounce abortion.
Feb 15, 2016, campaign web site: DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. OPED - THE CULTURE OF LIFE
Jan 23, 2016, Washington Examiner: Donald Trump op-ed: My vision for a culture of life
OnTheIssues.org site gives chronological history of Trump's evolution on this issue, with dates and links:
"I am now pro-life; after years of being pro-choice"
Source: Steven Ertelt in LifeNews.com , Apr 8, 2011"I changed my views to pro-life based on personal stories"
Source: David Brody interview on CBN.com , Apr 8, 2011"I am pro-life; fight ObamaCare abortion funding"
Source: USA Today report on 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference , Feb 10, 2011"Pro-choice, but ban partial birth abortion" (16 years ago)
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 31-32 , Jul 2, 2000"Favors abortion rights but respects opposition"
Source: Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press , Dec 2, 1999 (unavailable online)