Posted on 08/11/2025 5:36:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO — During Donald Trump’s campaign for president last year, he sought to ease the concerns of voters alarmed that the Supreme Court he helped shape during his first term had overturned the constitutional right to abortion, saying that he thought the issue should be decided not by federal decree but by individual states.
More than six months into Trump’s second term in the White House, a review by the Associated Press shows that several of his nominees to the federal courts have revealed antiabortion views, been associated with antiabortion groups or defended abortion restrictions.
Several have helped defend their state’s abortion restrictions in court, and some have been involved in cases with national impact, including on access to medication abortion.
The nominees, with lifetime appointments, would be in position to roll back abortion rights long after Trump leaves the White House.
Trump’s shifting positions
Trump has repeatedly shifted his messaging on abortion, often giving contradictory or vague answers.
In the years before the 2024 campaign, Trump had voiced support for a federal ban on abortion on or after 20 weeks in pregnancy and said he might support a national ban around 15 weeks. He later settled on messaging that decisions about abortion access should be left to the states.
Throughout his campaign, Trump has alternated between taking credit for appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe vs. Wade and striking a more neutral tone. That’s been an effort to navigate the political divide between his base of antiabortion supporters and the broader public, which largely supports access to abortion.
Nominees’ views
One Trump nominee called abortion a “barbaric practice,” while another referred to himself as a “zealot” for the antiabortion movement. A nominee from Tennessee said abortion deserves special scrutiny because “this is the only medical procedure that terminates a life.”
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There is no such thing as an “abortion right.”
Time to disabuse ourselves of innocent bloodshed.
Yep
(had overturned THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION,)
Does NOT Exist
And all those Democrat appointees do not?
There is not - and there has never been - a “constitutional right to abortion”
No reason to pay any attention to this article.
Now to get Senator John Thune to convene the Senate and approve Trump’s appointments. Thune is currently stabbing President Trump in the back by not allowing Trump to make recess appointments. Thune is a deep state criminal and needs to be removed.
Woops, wrong thread, please ignore
Recess appointments are awful. They only get a timeframe. I’d rather they come back in September and give lifetime appointments.
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