The former president wants you to believe he is a moderate on abortion. He isn’t.
Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion striking down Roe v. Wade triggered the emergence of an invasive system of surveillance and control targeting women as a class.
And yet, if you skim the headlines, you might come away with the impression that Trump is a moderate on abortion. In an interview Sunday, Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press that he thought a Republican-primary rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, had made a “terrible mistake” by signing a law that bans abortion at six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant. His rambling remarks also suggested support for a federal ban on abortion: “What’s going to happen is you’re going to come up with a number of weeks or months. You’re going to come up with a number that’s going to make people happy … I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.
